I was in an outlet of a large computer chain the other day.
There was this old couple that wanted to buy a computer, and I heard them say that they wanted a computer so they could exchange email with their children and grandchildren.
The salesmen was then pushing CD Burners, Network Cards, Modems (yes, both), 21" monitors, 1 ghz processors, etc.
This reminds me of the times in the 1800's (or earlier, I can't remember anymore, thats school for you) where not many people could read, and thus the priests could tell those people what the bible said. And since the people could not read, they could not find out the truth for themselves.
Computer user groups should make themselves available to people who do not understand computers enough so that they know enough to be able to buy exactly what they want, and not get ripped off by a sleazebag salesman who wants to become the sales-person of the month.
The only programs I have ever seen written in delphi are mail bombing/dos programs.
Now all the l33t hax0rs will go to linux beacuse they can use their mail bombing programs and DoS programs. I await for the "3y3 w4nt 2 b3 a l33t gnu hax0r. h0w?????" posts on mailing list.
Essentially the companies who develop linux software want to be able to change linux around to what their customers want.
I thought because of open source they could do that anyways.
I doubt the companies listed in the beginning of the article ever had the ability to have microsoft change windows to their liking either.
In my opinion, linus is the best guy to take care of the kernel. If a non-profit company were to take over, I'm sure there would be alot of in-fighting about the direction of the kernel.
This is a great idea, I've been trying to convice teachers, parents, etc. That playing video games develop alot of other skills, it would be nice to have studies to actually back that up.
I think that more than one game needs to be played. As I child, I didn't play just one game, but I played a whole bunch. However in each game I learned another skill that could be applied to the next one.
How about this for a study? Have subjects perform a bunch of tasks that they have not done before and rate their progress. Then have subjects play a series of games for an hour or more each day, for a week. At the end of their game playing, have them perform more tasks that they have not done before, that involves some of the skills learned in video games.
I suggest using children as the subjects, as the things learned from games probably are more prominent in them as they haven't learned the skills from another source.
The hilarious thing about this, is that the guy probably had to take MORE time to make sure he excludes netscape, rather than just not deal with it at all and let "the inferior netscape" display the page improperly.
From my experiences, these are juvenile webmasters, who use internet explorer themselves, and don't want to be bothered with netscape compatibility, but don't want to be called lazy either, and instead put up a message about how netscape sucks, and everyone is using internet explorer, and netscape/mozilla users should "follow the group"
I sure wouldn't, knowing that anyone who decides to get information about my website would be able to crack it.
Lets compare this to a game of hide and seek.
If you have played hide and seek, you know, that no matter where you hide, you will be found. Unless you are in a place that the seeker cannot get access too, you will eventually be found.
So now these large corporations are going to be sharing vulnerabilities with each other. I don't know about everyone else, but I trust Microsoft almost as much as I trust the 12 year old down the street trying to infect users with back orifice.
These companies are composed of people, people who could leak these newly found vulnerabilities to the script kiddies anyways, or use the vulnerabilities themselves.
Slashdot could and should automatically mirror the page that the link points it, if not every page on click away as well.
The editors wouldn't have to do any more work than they would now, the submission script could easily look through the post for links, and have them downloaded to a slashdot server, and change the link to point to it.
Once the post is off the front page, the cached pages could be deleted, and the links changed back to the actual links.
Lately the slashdot posts seem to have another story included with them as well, like: "SoAndSo also sent in an article about a similar subject" appended at the bottom of the post. It's been done twice today, and it reminds me of the quickies.
What about bringing back the quickies? I would kill over an hour just going through all the links in the quickies, it was great.
Borland was able to keep this secret for years, or the developers of borland.
Since the source was released, it's obvious that the developers that added the backdoor have already left borland, since it wasn't removed, and the other developers haven't noticed that there is a backdoor.
So, If it can go undetected even if the whole world has access to the source. So might this indicate that there is a very certain possibility that the crackers who broke into MS DID backdoor the source?
Aside from the transulect green spheres in the middle, it looks ugly to me.
The controllers look big and clunky (2/3 the size of the machine it seems), and the machine itself is boxy, it looks like a suitcase.
Does any else think the buttons are too high up on the controller? It looks like someone would have to put their hands at a ring angle to each other to be able to use the controller easily?
I always liked the FMV type of game, where movies were made with real actors, and you were able to sort of interact with an environment that looked real. I would love to see some of those types of games the SegaCD had released on other platforms
Sure, playing a game rendered in real time is nice, but with the ps2, and it's ability to read dvd, imagine the quality and ammount of FMV they could put on there, as well as what they could do with the real time rendered stuff.
Maybe the NASA people are planning to place small gps transmitters in all the aces and jacks in a casino, then with this system, they will be able to tell if they or their fellow players have black jack.
Look for NASA to have a large increase of funding soon.
Hopefully this will open up a chance for new card makers to come in with new and different cards and actually have a market for them.
This might even get matrox to work a bit harder to try to get the G800 out before I'm an old man. Although, if it as good as it is rumored to be, I will still be a very happy old man.
Comming from a group of people that supposedly believe in full disclosure and information being free and accessible, this is certainly a step away from the accessibility part.
Administrators checking their email could be using a console, and therefore it would be more difficult for them to get all the information on the advisory.
AFAIK bugtraq was designed as a place to post security advisories, not pimp a link to an advisory and advertise your website.
It would be neat to have it output the sounds to a radio broadcaster, the network admins could walk around wearing headsets and hear the network traffic, if they start hearing weird noises in their headsets, they can go and find out what it is.
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I was in an outlet of a large computer chain the other day.
There was this old couple that wanted to buy a computer, and I heard them say that they wanted a computer so they could exchange email with their children and grandchildren.
The salesmen was then pushing CD Burners, Network Cards, Modems (yes, both), 21" monitors, 1 ghz processors, etc.
This reminds me of the times in the 1800's (or earlier, I can't remember anymore, thats school for you) where not many people could read, and thus the priests could tell those people what the bible said. And since the people could not read, they could not find out the truth for themselves.
Computer user groups should make themselves available to people who do not understand computers enough so that they know enough to be able to buy exactly what they want, and not get ripped off by a sleazebag salesman who wants to become the sales-person of the month.
It has been said over and over again that the radar guns issued to traffic police are useless.
What if the car recorded the position and speed a car was going, and stored it locally, and encrypted using some kind of storage device.
Take that to court next time you have challenge a speeding ticket.
I demand a recount!
The only programs I have ever seen written in delphi are mail bombing/dos programs.
Now all the l33t hax0rs will go to linux beacuse they can use their mail bombing programs and DoS programs. I await for the "3y3 w4nt 2 b3 a l33t gnu hax0r. h0w?????" posts on mailing list.
Essentially the companies who develop linux software want to be able to change linux around to what their customers want.
I thought because of open source they could do that anyways.
I doubt the companies listed in the beginning of the article ever had the ability to have microsoft change windows to their liking either.
In my opinion, linus is the best guy to take care of the kernel. If a non-profit company were to take over, I'm sure there would be alot of in-fighting about the direction of the kernel.
This is a great idea, I've been trying to convice teachers, parents, etc. That playing video games develop alot of other skills, it would be nice to have studies to actually back that up.
I think that more than one game needs to be played. As I child, I didn't play just one game, but I played a whole bunch. However in each game I learned another skill that could be applied to the next one.
How about this for a study? Have subjects perform a bunch of tasks that they have not done before and rate their progress. Then have subjects play a series of games for an hour or more each day, for a week. At the end of their game playing, have them perform more tasks that they have not done before, that involves some of the skills learned in video games.
I suggest using children as the subjects, as the things learned from games probably are more prominent in them as they haven't learned the skills from another source.
Okay, so now they have figured out that you can't sell everything they can think of on the internet.
So instead, they patent everything they can think of, and file lawsuits.
I have to go find some law firms I can invest in now...
The hilarious thing about this, is that the guy probably had to take MORE time to make sure he excludes netscape, rather than just not deal with it at all and let "the inferior netscape" display the page improperly.
From my experiences, these are juvenile webmasters, who use internet explorer themselves, and don't want to be bothered with netscape compatibility, but don't want to be called lazy either, and instead put up a message about how netscape sucks, and everyone is using internet explorer, and netscape/mozilla users should "follow the group"
Do you sleep well at night?
I sure wouldn't, knowing that anyone who decides to get information about my website would be able to crack it.
Lets compare this to a game of hide and seek.
If you have played hide and seek, you know, that no matter where you hide, you will be found. Unless you are in a place that the seeker cannot get access too, you will eventually be found.
So now these large corporations are going to be sharing vulnerabilities with each other. I don't know about everyone else, but I trust Microsoft almost as much as I trust the 12 year old down the street trying to infect users with back orifice.
These companies are composed of people, people who could leak these newly found vulnerabilities to the script kiddies anyways, or use the vulnerabilities themselves.
Slashdot could and should automatically mirror the page that the link points it, if not every page on click away as well.
The editors wouldn't have to do any more work than they would now, the submission script could easily look through the post for links, and have them downloaded to a slashdot server, and change the link to point to it.
Once the post is off the front page, the cached pages could be deleted, and the links changed back to the actual links.
Lately the slashdot posts seem to have another story included with them as well, like: "SoAndSo also sent in an article about a similar subject" appended at the bottom of the post. It's been done twice today, and it reminds me of the quickies.
What about bringing back the quickies? I would kill over an hour just going through all the links in the quickies, it was great.
Borland was able to keep this secret for years, or the developers of borland.
Since the source was released, it's obvious that the developers that added the backdoor have already left borland, since it wasn't removed, and the other developers haven't noticed that there is a backdoor.
So, If it can go undetected even if the whole world has access to the source. So might this indicate that there is a very certain possibility that the crackers who broke into MS DID backdoor the source?
It's amazing who you come across on slashdot.
I had exchanged emails with lloyd a while ago about his harvey system (what geekt.org is using)
And now I see him submitting slashdot articles.
Soon I will be getting to know my neighbors better through slashdot.
*sigh*
please forgive the spelling mistakes...
Aside from the transulect green spheres in the middle, it looks ugly to me.
The controllers look big and clunky (2/3 the size of the machine it seems), and the machine itself is boxy, it looks like a suitcase.
Does any else think the buttons are too high up on the controller? It looks like someone would have to put their hands at a ring angle to each other to be able to use the controller easily?
I hope they find a way to keep it up there. It would be funny if the seattle wireless guys used it as an antenna. Technological advances indeed.
I always liked the FMV type of game, where movies were made with real actors, and you were able to sort of interact with an environment that looked real. I would love to see some of those types of games the SegaCD had released on other platforms
Sure, playing a game rendered in real time is nice, but with the ps2, and it's ability to read dvd, imagine the quality and ammount of FMV they could put on there, as well as what they could do with the real time rendered stuff.
How about an FMV Resident Evil Game?
-Attempting to limit what you see in government funded places. (for now)
-Giving the police a broader allowance to wire-tap.
-Carnivore doing more than what they say it is doing. (Everyones email?)
Sounds alot like 1984 is becomming more and more of a reality
Maybe the NASA people are planning to place small gps transmitters in all the aces and jacks in a casino, then with this system, they will be able to tell if they or their fellow players have black jack.
Look for NASA to have a large increase of funding soon.
Hopefully this will open up a chance for new card makers to come in with new and different cards and actually have a market for them.
This might even get matrox to work a bit harder to try to get the G800 out before I'm an old man. Although, if it as good as it is rumored to be, I will still be a very happy old man.
Comming from a group of people that supposedly believe in full disclosure and information being free and accessible, this is certainly a step away from the accessibility part. Administrators checking their email could be using a console, and therefore it would be more difficult for them to get all the information on the advisory. AFAIK bugtraq was designed as a place to post security advisories, not pimp a link to an advisory and advertise your website.
Maybe this could be used to make existing processors smaller.
:)
Maybe make wearable computers faster.
On the other hand, if they still output the same heat, but in just a smaller area, we can expect to also see flaming wearable computer operators.
It would be neat to have it output the sounds to a radio broadcaster, the network admins could walk around wearing headsets and hear the network traffic, if they start hearing weird noises in their headsets, they can go and find out what it is.
human motion input devices and sex...hrm..
I'm sure that damn microsoft paper clip will come up and attempt to offer suggestions.
"I see your having trouble getting it up. (Contained Laughter) Would you like to order some viagra?"