I suspect multiple views would not be permitted on most multiplayer games, as it would be too much of an advantage.
OTOH, I can't see any problem with games making heavy use of status/inventory info allowing a second monitor just for that.. flight sims esp. would rock having your instruments on another monitor, keeping your main monitor free for full screen action.
of course this will all be moot when we're all using VR headsets that emulate full 3D environment just by detecting the direction of your head...
What makes SETI think that any technological civilization will use radio for very long?
we still use it...:)
I wonder if they can detect encrypted radio signals
if it's encrypted we can still receive it, we just wont know what it says. ET would have to be pretty hardcore to bother disguising the signal as say space noise, rather than emit a definate artificial signal...
I mean, what's a few hundred years of radio use compared to the thousands of years that a civilization may exist?
considering such a civilisation would be extremely far away, we'll receive the signals long after they stop using them. we just have to be listening during the few hundred year window that those radio waves get to us. perhaps the window has already past. perhaps it's thousands of years in the future.. if the latter, no doubt we and the other race would have much better communication systems (and the means to detect them), not to mention being able to physically travel faster than the radio waves, therefore meeting ET before his local TV broadcasts reach Earth...
there is NO reason for a packet to come into the network that is not part of your address space [snip] We have a packet filter on our edge routers as well as our core multi-homed router to deny traffic with a source address that doesn't match one of our class-C's. [snip] If we can filter right up to the edge of the transit-network, DDOS should be a thing of the past....
OK, I'm not an expert, but... how will DDoS be a thing of the past if you're filtering INBOUND traffic based on whether or not it's really destined for you?
a) how the hell did a packet addressed to someone else get to you (assuming you're not a network carrier)? obviously a router upstream from you has been configured by cowboys.
b) it's INBOUND traffic. thats the whole problem. once you have 500mbit/s trying to come down your 100mbit/s pipe, doesn't matter what filtering you do to prevent the poor modem users getting flooded. your entire link is still flooded because the packets are being dropped, so the incoming data isn't compensating for the slow modem user, it's just pouring in as fast as you can drop it...
c) you should be filtering OUTBOUND data from potentially hostile hosts (ie. end-users and servers that arent behind a strict firewall). At least if you ensure packets leaving your site are tracable back to you, any DDoS can be stopped with a few phone calls.
depends who's right about the source of oil. some scientists think oil is created deep within the earth and constantly replenishes the suppliy. if that is the case, there'll be oil for a long time, although in restricted quantities.
you're probably running NS under X, no? Guess what, Ars aint a Linux site, so the fonts are sized to look normal on PC/Mac, or someone that knows how to fix their default fonts in NS/X.
apart from carting shit about, my trail bike goes anywhere your monster goes, and is tons of fun to ride. too bad you spend all that cash on your car, a bike shits on a car for raw power any day (bike = engine with wheels). however some twits still think they can race me at the lights and win...
i never bothered to calculate fuel efficiency, but i estimate it's something around 150k's off 5L of premium.
and I still got moderated down coz I'm going against the grain of/.
sheep.
GUIs are alike enough as it is to allow any reasonably competant person to move from one to another without too much trouble. I dont see why I should be forced to have my GUI behave like one I didn't choose to use.
you don't pump raw crude oil straight into your car. i'm pretty sure the part of the oil used for fuel and the part(s) used for plastics are different...
why do they take off vertically anyway? seems to me it would be easier to take off like a plane and let aerodynamics assist in keeping the thing flying, rather than brute force. how hard can it be to give these near-orbit craft an extra kick out into space?
roads and railroads are designed this way. instead of going straight up a steep mountain with a rocket booster in the back seat, the [rail]roads curve around and around.. it's particilarly noticable when cycling up said mountain:)
absolutely. i dunno what things are like in the USA, but on my side of the pond, less than honourable vendors do not use $400 ABit motherboards in their crappy boxen.
if they do, the eeprom idea that someone else came up with to ID CPU's that are running at a different speed than the mfr's rating, plus a motherboard vendor approval scheme, will ensure that it's damn obvious if a vendor isn't on the level, with no way to engineer around it.
i'm guessing the source must accompany the binaries. so if the binaries are downloadable, so must the source. if the binaries are on CD, so must the source...
if this is exactly legal. If the distribution is using gpl software, doesn't it hve to be made available? Please respond, I am confused.
i'm pretty sure they don't have to make any of it downloadable. they just have to include the source with the binaries of GPL software, ie. a second CD.
websites that have reason to protect users' privacy shouldn't be logging anything that isn't an error. easy. court subpoena aint magic, they wont get data that doesn't exist (unless there's an order to start logging i suppose...)
the uninvolved parties are, as you said, postmasters and the like of hopefully large organisations, therefore in a better position to deal with the loser.
however, my MTA has this odd ability to figure out what to do with RCPT-TO and MAIL-FROM so i'm golden. i don't remember the command but an SMTP server can 'suggest' an alternate address if a user doesn't exist on your system, which means the spammer either forwards it to the new victim (ie. your system doesnt accept it then bounce it somewhere else) or gives up. either way you dont get it, and the new victim will not have any evidence that your system passed the buck...
i'd love to do CS. but i'm making decent money as it is, i'm not quitting. CS is one of the majority of courses that cant be done by correspondence.
a CS degree is an asset for sure, but unless there is a NEED for a person to get one (ie. the job you want states you must have it) then why waste time at school when you could be out making money without one
if they want people to do CS, make it easier to enroll.
imo, copyrights held by companies should last 5 years. copyrights held by the artists should last ~15 years. they have the right to make money off their efforts, but nobody should withhold intellectual property from the public for any great length of time.
same goes for patents and similar bullshit. imo, patents protect your right to make money off your idea. if you're not making any efforts to make money (for a period of time), you lose the patent. that'd stop all these wankers with patents on mp3 encoding, hyperlinking, GIFs, etc. supprising everyone after usage is widespread.
i fucking hate the fact that every part of our society will soon be owned by some company. fuck em. fuck the government too. sooner or later these pricks are going to have to accept people must have control.
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I thought they dumbed it down again to no buttons at all?
I suspect multiple views would not be permitted on most multiplayer games, as it would be too much of an advantage.
OTOH, I can't see any problem with games making heavy use of status/inventory info allowing a second monitor just for that.. flight sims esp. would rock having your instruments on another monitor, keeping your main monitor free for full screen action.
of course this will all be moot when we're all using VR headsets that emulate full 3D environment just by detecting the direction of your head...
What makes SETI think that any technological civilization will use radio for very long?
:)
we still use it...
I wonder if they can detect encrypted radio signals
if it's encrypted we can still receive it, we just wont know what it says. ET would have to be pretty hardcore to bother disguising the signal as say space noise, rather than emit a definate artificial signal...
I mean, what's a few hundred years of radio use compared to the thousands of years that a civilization may exist?
considering such a civilisation would be extremely far away, we'll receive the signals long after they stop using them. we just have to be listening during the few hundred year window that those radio waves get to us. perhaps the window has already past. perhaps it's thousands of years in the future.. if the latter, no doubt we and the other race would have much better communication systems (and the means to detect them), not to mention being able to physically travel faster than the radio waves, therefore meeting ET before his local TV broadcasts reach Earth...
there is NO reason for a packet to come into the network that is not part of your address space
[snip]
We have a packet filter on our edge routers as well as our core multi-homed router to deny traffic with a source address that doesn't match one of our class-C's.
[snip]
If we can filter right up to the edge of the transit-network, DDOS should be a thing of the past....
OK, I'm not an expert, but... how will DDoS be a thing of the past if you're filtering INBOUND traffic based on whether or not it's really destined for you?
a) how the hell did a packet addressed to someone else get to you (assuming you're not a network carrier)? obviously a router upstream from you has been configured by cowboys.
b) it's INBOUND traffic. thats the whole problem. once you have 500mbit/s trying to come down your 100mbit/s pipe, doesn't matter what filtering you do to prevent the poor modem users getting flooded. your entire link is still flooded because the packets are being dropped, so the incoming data isn't compensating for the slow modem user, it's just pouring in as fast as you can drop it...
c) you should be filtering OUTBOUND data from potentially hostile hosts (ie. end-users and servers that arent behind a strict firewall). At least if you ensure packets leaving your site are tracable back to you, any DDoS can be stopped with a few phone calls.
because Tuxette is the one with the bow, while Tux is plain.
depends who's right about the source of oil. some scientists think oil is created deep within the earth and constantly replenishes the suppliy. if that is the case, there'll be oil for a long time, although in restricted quantities.
just because you dont like or agree with it, doesn't make it crap.
you're probably running NS under X, no? Guess what, Ars aint a Linux site, so the fonts are sized to look normal on PC/Mac, or someone that knows how to fix their default fonts in NS/X.
apart from carting shit about, my trail bike goes anywhere your monster goes, and is tons of fun to ride. too bad you spend all that cash on your car, a bike shits on a car for raw power any day (bike = engine with wheels). however some twits still think they can race me at the lights and win...
i never bothered to calculate fuel efficiency, but i estimate it's something around 150k's off 5L of premium.
a brain-damaged version of a
and I hate it when people refer to things as brain-damaged, comparing two things that aren't intended to serve the same purpose.
DOS/command.com is/was a very simplified environment, for use on personal computers, not servers. (over)simplified doesn't mean brain-damaged.
You've got a point there
/.
and I still got moderated down coz I'm going against the grain of
sheep.
GUIs are alike enough as it is to allow any reasonably competant person to move from one to another without too much trouble. I dont see why I should be forced to have my GUI behave like one I didn't choose to use.
you don't pump raw crude oil straight into your car. i'm pretty sure the part of the oil used for fuel and the part(s) used for plastics are different...
that should be the opposite. appending a . to the end of a domain should force it NOT to append any of your DNS suffixes.
Would AMD have ever made it this far had their loyalists not bought the AMD 586 to overclock it, the K6-2 to overclock it
overclock a k6-2? are you mental? are you trying to melt the polar ice caps?
586 i know little about other than it sucked for speed, so might as well overclock it to make you feel like you weren't taken for a ride.
why do they take off vertically anyway? seems to me it would be easier to take off like a plane and let aerodynamics assist in keeping the thing flying, rather than brute force. how hard can it be to give these near-orbit craft an extra kick out into space?
:)
roads and railroads are designed this way. instead of going straight up a steep mountain with a rocket booster in the back seat, the [rail]roads curve around and around.. it's particilarly noticable when cycling up said mountain
impose restrictions on vendors
absolutely. i dunno what things are like in the USA, but on my side of the pond, less than honourable vendors do not use $400 ABit motherboards in their crappy boxen.
if they do, the eeprom idea that someone else came up with to ID CPU's that are running at a different speed than the mfr's rating, plus a motherboard vendor approval scheme, will ensure that it's damn obvious if a vendor isn't on the level, with no way to engineer around it.
and /. thinks they're security issues. the first two are obviously to counter pr0n sites' stupid tricks. nothing to do with security.
er, just to clarify
i'm guessing the source must accompany the binaries. so if the binaries are downloadable, so must the source. if the binaries are on CD, so must the source...
it is available for free, WITH THE DISTRO.
if this is exactly legal. If the distribution is using gpl software, doesn't it hve to be made available? Please respond, I am confused.
i'm pretty sure they don't have to make any of it downloadable. they just have to include the source with the binaries of GPL software, ie. a second CD.
Slashdot server logs
websites that have reason to protect users' privacy shouldn't be logging anything that isn't an error. easy. court subpoena aint magic, they wont get data that doesn't exist (unless there's an order to start logging i suppose...)
the uninvolved parties are, as you said, postmasters and the like of hopefully large organisations, therefore in a better position to deal with the loser.
however, my MTA has this odd ability to figure out what to do with RCPT-TO and MAIL-FROM so i'm golden. i don't remember the command but an SMTP server can 'suggest' an alternate address if a user doesn't exist on your system, which means the spammer either forwards it to the new victim (ie. your system doesnt accept it then bounce it somewhere else) or gives up. either way you dont get it, and the new victim will not have any evidence that your system passed the buck...
or you can save yourself receiving the email and tell your MTA to reject anything sent to the nospam domain.
duh.
i'd love to do CS. but i'm making decent money as it is, i'm not quitting. CS is one of the majority of courses that cant be done by correspondence.
a CS degree is an asset for sure, but unless there is a NEED for a person to get one (ie. the job you want states you must have it) then why waste time at school when you could be out making money without one
if they want people to do CS, make it easier to enroll.
This is called stealing
fuck em. they're stealing from all humanity.
imo, copyrights held by companies should last 5 years. copyrights held by the artists should last ~15 years. they have the right to make money off their efforts, but nobody should withhold intellectual property from the public for any great length of time.
same goes for patents and similar bullshit. imo, patents protect your right to make money off your idea. if you're not making any efforts to make money (for a period of time), you lose the patent. that'd stop all these wankers with patents on mp3 encoding, hyperlinking, GIFs, etc. supprising everyone after usage is widespread.
i fucking hate the fact that every part of our society will soon be owned by some company. fuck em. fuck the government too. sooner or later these pricks are going to have to accept people must have control.