Ok. This is a bad admission but here goes. I *used* to have a bad habit of using bizare dada names for test variables so they would stick out at me when cleaning code up for production. Some of them where just ludicrous. I realised the practice was getting way too whacky when the boss came in red in the face asking what the fuck a variable called "MaryCarefullyWipesHerFrock" was doing in his precious code, and why it was commented that it was "being taken from behind by intDuckMonster"
Yeah. It's some pretty amazing stuff. A friend of mine attempted to put together (It didn't work) a linux kernel patch that allowed hot swapping of kernels (updates).Didn't work tho the theory was reasonably sound. How would ones microsoft friends feel on that? "I just upgraded to a new operating system and the web server was up the whole time."
Yeah. It's a hard one. The emergent behavior of Neural nets pose a thorny problem for AI in that it can be hard to extrapolate usable theorems from them, which is why I suspect the symbolic AI guys tend to dislike NN so strongly. But that does not imply initiative. The NN will function exactly as it's programmed and emergence does NOT imply initiative or intentionality. The more interesting philosophical question is do humans reaaly have initiative and intentionallity, or is that just an illusion created by introspection by emergent phenomenom. As to the grand parent poster, I am reminded of one of the stories from "I ROBOT" where the robot refuses to believe it was created by a human , because no human is as smart as it and dumb things can not create smarter things. I once in high-school created a little checkers playing game on my old AMSTRAD puter and basically fed it every strategy I could think of and a two level depth search tree. The damn thing beat me every time I played it, and same to all my friends. Emergent behavior? Sort of, in that the sum of the brute forcing plus my hokey little observations made for a suprisingly strong and unpredictable game. But initiative? Definately no.
That's alright dude. We'll stop coming to your country and taking jobs as long as your fucking corporations stop trashing our local job markets. Heres one way. Stop fucking wasting the Australian agricultural sector by putting in anticompettitive tarrifs on wheat. We don't tarrif you guys (because the US force us not to).
Oh and while I'm at it. Ya don't suppose them immigrants , like, eat food and stuff. Most research suggests immigration increases employment levels.
Yeah. Stupid cultures. We dun won no stinkin' people we cant understand becus there difer-ent to us. An' Billy-joe, pass me the moonshine now yer hear?
Well I *hope* you had the book dude. I remember about ten years ago using it in a course, and the first thing I decided to do was disable the file permissions and make everything 777 (Remember kids... No internet without sorebrain over 2400 modem back then.. and pretty unlikely to get hacked) It took me about 5 minutes to find it and change it and then more than a few coffees to recompile.
Now heres an exercise for ya. Make that mod to your lin kernel. It's doable (I tried it once, and it worked although it made much of the system pretty angry at me) but it'll take you MUCH more than 5 minutes to figure it out if you don't know the kernel hangs together already. Minix is I agree flawed in many respects, but it's simplistic by design. It's a teaching tool, and I vehermently deny that it's obscure. It's quite pretty and straight forward actually.
Actually, one of Tanenbaum's protege has a version from memory called VMD or something like that (long time ago). That's the one for your 386/486. I think it had a VM & perhaps threads and ran the X terminal. The X may of migrated back to minix 2.
I think the biggest prob with minix was the nutty network system. It *wasnt* posix or berkley sockets from memory. Maybe it was in VMD. Things maya changed in the past god knows how many years.
Still I *did* get nethack going, and I never got a response from Tanenbaum about my game "gloom" a text mode doom that unfortunately I've lost the code for when I supernuked that old hard drive.(It was highly silly & totally made redundant by overkill).
Bing! Lose a point kiddo. Does allan cox actually own the rights to the linux code? At most Linus may. Remember Skylarov got his arse ripped DESPITE adobe actually objecting. Allan Cox does, and hes probly had advice on this, face DMCA busting if he explains the 'sploit. THATS why everyones up in arms about the DMCA , because it's fuckin' ludicrous. And he can get deported for it too. And if you cross your eyes the right way, yeah a slim-jim might just be a circumvention device too. (Break into car, steal document , break DCMA). It's verry silly. Oh and dude, if someone is using your method on there data, I fully recon' that DMCA + implied contract with customer to rely on your protection on their data means that your haxor technique breaks THEIR data. You still go to jail. (I wonder if CHMOD & CHOWN are circumvention devices). This has gotten outa hand.
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Sure. I think so. give it a go, at worse you might just learn something!
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Actially the shame of this is Minix(VMD) and X make a seriously slim little X terminal on crappy old hardware. This is a shame, as I learned on Minix, and still have a spot in me heart for it.
I even heard a rumor that Redhat and Suse are considering "SELLING" linux too. Imagine that. Arm the baracades comrades and raise the red flag! It's time for the Lunix revolution!!!!!
by youngerpants on Tuesday October 08, @06:01PM (Score:1, Offtopic) (#4408767)
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The first one to get CP/M running on the XBox will gain true kudos.
10 PRINT "Microsoft really wouldnt like this"
20 GO TO 10
RUN
Ah... Teen moderators... Don'chya lovem "What's CPM got to do with this?". (Hint read some IT history books kids.)
More likely News.com will be notified that they are in violation of the DMCA, and asked to cease and desist. Upon recieving notification, the author of the article that linked to DeCSS will be fired and blacklisted. (Or whoever created the link. The author might have nothing to do with it being a link.)
Actually if the sub-editor fired him, I suspect verry heavilly that the union and every other journalist on the planet would blacklist the subbie and refuse to ever work for him again. You'd be suprised at how far journalists break the rules on a daily basis. Anyway RIAA can't afford the bad publicity on suing a "real" publication. That might just cause cosmic fury upon congress and get the law bounced. Or a judge might rule the story was unwritable minus the link and rule the DMCA a dud.
It's pretty gutsy tho. More power to em.
Congratulations Freuddot! You have been selected to come to SUNNY USA (USA #1! USA #1!) to begin your new career as a "security consultant". The FBI will be waiting at the airport to escort you to the interview.
Unreasonable standard perhaps, but it's the standard used. Either way. It's an issue for law reform. I agree it's shitty, and it's the stuff of tabloids but thats the law. It does need to be changed. Remember : The law is an ass.
Doubt it. Microsoft tend to back off on "activistic" stuff. They have learned the hard way (And no doubt are aware of McLibel) that picking on little folk tend to get them bad press. This really isn't important to them . Remember X-bill? Loadsa ripped logos.
No. It's just that the right to privacy defined in the constitution isn't what you think it is. Read the fourth ammendment verry clearly. It's the only thing that even implies privacy and it doesn't apply to citizens. The cameras in public bit is an old thing thats been challenged many many times over (I'm a journalist, trust me I know about these things) and time and time again the supreme court has found that taking photographs in public places does not violate privacy considerations. I can assure you my friend that these supreme court guys know these things verry well. And yeah, if you read that constitution, you will see that privacy in public aint in there, only an implied right to privacy in areas that can be reasonably shown to have an expectation of privacy (ones own house, public toilets etc). Obviously sticking a camera down someones pants would be illegal. That's sexual harassment. But upskirt cams are , unfortunately, legal . It's not harassment either as harassment requires a direct command to cease an activity. (Ie "Please stop filming my breasts, you are making me uncomfortable".)
Um.... Are you certain about that? Constitutional Privacy rights tend to arise out of the Fourth amendment. This covers actions of government. Nothing here says a private citizen can't camera peoples exposed undies in public.
Fourth amendment ================ The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Hey man! I complained when I lost my clippy! Well.. kinda.... I had the damn thing scripted up via a python Comm script to turn on @ 5pm And threaten to launch porn windows all over my screen if I didn't stop what I was doing, turn the machine off, go home and have a beer. On the other hand, Clippy did actually suck. I just kinda tweaked it to suck less.
Holy cow does it ever. I.. somewhat stupidly decided to investigate the sucker by launching Zonealarm & clicking on the preview to examine the attachment.... in outlook (9am coffee brain here) and the SLAMBO! The thing autolaunched outa the preview frame (IFRAME vunerability) and instantly smacked zonealarm down and started firing. Gah! Anyway, it took me all of about 20 seconds to kill it, but I tell ya, that was the first time I've been goofed by a virus since friggin' no_frills_dudley 10 years ago... Time to update those virus patterns I think!. And yes, kick me. It was a stupid experiment, but I figured I wanted to know just what WAS the junk flooding my email server.
Yes! And they sold me BOMBS AND CANCER as substitutes for pet food too. Terrible terrible. My poor dog caught defamation and couldnt enjoy pro-bonos for months after.
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The lack of money that is prevelant in 99% non-lala-imaginary real world small businesses.
Ok. This is a bad admission but here goes. I *used* to have a bad habit of using bizare dada names for test variables so they would stick out at me when cleaning code up for production. Some of them where just ludicrous. I realised the practice was getting way too whacky when the boss came in red in the face asking what the fuck a variable called "MaryCarefullyWipesHerFrock" was doing in his precious code, and why it was commented that it was "being taken from behind by intDuckMonster"
Yeah. It's some pretty amazing stuff. A friend of mine attempted to put together (It didn't work) a linux kernel patch that allowed hot swapping of kernels (updates).Didn't work tho the theory was reasonably sound. How would ones microsoft friends feel on that? "I just upgraded to a new operating system and the web server was up the whole time."
Yeah. It's a hard one. The emergent behavior of Neural nets pose a thorny problem for AI in that it can be hard to extrapolate usable theorems from them, which is why I suspect the symbolic AI guys tend to dislike NN so strongly.
But that does not imply initiative. The NN will function exactly as it's programmed and emergence does NOT imply initiative or intentionality. The more interesting philosophical question is do humans reaaly have initiative and intentionallity, or is that just an illusion created by introspection by emergent phenomenom.
As to the grand parent poster, I am reminded of one of the stories from "I ROBOT" where the robot refuses to believe it was created by a human , because no human is as smart as it and dumb things can not create smarter things. I once in high-school created a little checkers playing game on my old AMSTRAD puter and basically fed it every strategy I could think of and a two level depth search tree. The damn thing beat me every time I played it, and same to all my friends. Emergent behavior? Sort of, in that the sum of the brute forcing plus my hokey little observations made for a suprisingly strong and unpredictable game. But initiative? Definately no.
That's alright dude. We'll stop coming to your country and taking jobs as long as your fucking corporations stop trashing our local job markets.
Heres one way. Stop fucking wasting the Australian agricultural sector by putting in anticompettitive tarrifs on wheat. We don't tarrif you guys (because the US force us not to).
Oh and while I'm at it. Ya don't suppose them immigrants , like, eat food and stuff. Most research suggests immigration increases employment levels.
Or do you just hate foreigners?
Yeah. Stupid cultures. We dun won no stinkin' people we cant understand becus there difer-ent to us.
An' Billy-joe, pass me the moonshine now yer hear?
...face DMCA busting if he explains the 'sploit."
Surprisingly, you could have used exactly the same number of characters to spell exploit correctly.
Or I could of spelt "Petty" with even less letters. SHeesh.
Well I *hope* you had the book dude.
I remember about ten years ago using it in a course, and the first thing I decided to do was disable the file permissions and make everything 777 (Remember kids... No internet without sorebrain over 2400 modem back then.. and pretty unlikely to get hacked)
It took me about 5 minutes to find it and change it and then more than a few coffees to recompile.
Now heres an exercise for ya. Make that mod to your lin kernel. It's doable (I tried it once, and it worked although it made much of the system pretty angry at me) but it'll take you MUCH more than 5 minutes to figure it out if you don't know the kernel hangs together already.
Minix is I agree flawed in many respects, but it's simplistic by design. It's a teaching tool, and I vehermently deny that it's obscure. It's quite pretty and straight forward actually.
Actually, one of Tanenbaum's protege has a version from memory called VMD or something like that (long time ago). That's the one for your 386/486. I think it had a VM & perhaps threads and ran the X terminal. The X may of migrated back to minix 2.
I think the biggest prob with minix was the nutty network system. It *wasnt* posix or berkley sockets from memory. Maybe it was in VMD. Things maya changed in the past god knows how many years.
Still I *did* get nethack going, and I never got a response from Tanenbaum about my game "gloom" a text mode doom that unfortunately I've lost the code for when I supernuked that old hard drive.(It was highly silly & totally made redundant by overkill).
Bing! Lose a point kiddo.
Does allan cox actually own the rights to the linux code? At most Linus may. Remember Skylarov got his arse ripped DESPITE adobe actually objecting.
Allan Cox does, and hes probly had advice on this, face DMCA busting if he explains the 'sploit.
THATS why everyones up in arms about the DMCA , because it's fuckin' ludicrous.
And he can get deported for it too.
And if you cross your eyes the right way, yeah a slim-jim might just be a circumvention device too. (Break into car, steal document , break DCMA). It's verry silly. Oh and dude, if someone is using your method on there data, I fully recon' that DMCA + implied contract with customer to rely on your protection on their data means that your haxor technique breaks THEIR data. You still go to jail. (I wonder if CHMOD & CHOWN are circumvention devices).
This has gotten outa hand.
Sure. I think so. give it a go, at worse you might just learn something!
Actially the shame of this is Minix(VMD) and X make a seriously slim little X terminal on crappy old hardware.
This is a shame, as I learned on Minix, and still have a spot in me heart for it.
I even heard a rumor that Redhat and Suse are considering "SELLING" linux too. Imagine that. Arm the baracades comrades and raise the red flag! It's time for the Lunix revolution!!!!!
He shot himself in the heart , the poor guy. It's a tragic end to a guy who really did do an amazing thing.
by youngerpants on Tuesday October 08, @06:01PM (Score:1, Offtopic) (#4408767)
(User #255314 Info) [ Neutral ]
The first one to get CP/M running on the XBox will gain true kudos.
10 PRINT "Microsoft really wouldnt like this"
20 GO TO 10
RUN
Ah... Teen moderators... Don'chya lovem "What's CPM got to do with this?". (Hint read some IT history books kids.)
More likely News.com will be notified that they are in violation of the DMCA, and asked to cease and desist. Upon recieving notification, the author of the article that linked to DeCSS will be fired and blacklisted. (Or whoever created the link. The author might have nothing to do with it being a link.)
Actually if the sub-editor fired him, I suspect verry heavilly that the union and every other journalist on the planet would blacklist the subbie and refuse to ever work for him again. You'd be suprised at how far journalists break the rules on a daily basis. Anyway RIAA can't afford the bad publicity on suing a "real" publication. That might just cause cosmic fury upon congress and get the law bounced. Or a judge might rule the story was unwritable minus the link and rule the DMCA a dud.
It's pretty gutsy tho. More power to em.
Congratulations Freuddot! You have been selected to come to SUNNY USA (USA #1! USA #1!) to begin your new career as a "security consultant". The FBI will be waiting at the airport to escort you to the interview.
;)
I promise!
Unreasonable standard perhaps, but it's the standard used.
Either way. It's an issue for law reform. I agree it's shitty, and it's the stuff of tabloids but thats the law. It does need to be changed. Remember : The law is an ass.
Doubt it. Microsoft tend to back off on "activistic" stuff. They have learned the hard way (And no doubt are aware of McLibel) that picking on little folk tend to get them bad press. This really isn't important to them . Remember X-bill? Loadsa ripped logos.
No. It's just that the right to privacy defined in the constitution isn't what you think it is. Read the fourth ammendment verry clearly. It's the only thing that even implies privacy and it doesn't apply to citizens. The cameras in public bit is an old thing thats been challenged many many times over (I'm a journalist, trust me I know about these things) and time and time again the supreme court has found that taking photographs in public places does not violate privacy considerations. I can assure you my friend that these supreme court guys know these things verry well. And yeah, if you read that constitution, you will see that privacy in public aint in there, only an implied right to privacy in areas that can be reasonably shown to have an expectation of privacy (ones own house, public toilets etc). Obviously sticking a camera down someones pants would be illegal. That's sexual harassment. But upskirt cams are , unfortunately, legal . It's not harassment either as harassment requires a direct command to cease an activity. (Ie "Please stop filming my breasts, you are making me uncomfortable".)
Um.... Are you certain about that?
Constitutional Privacy rights tend to arise out of the Fourth amendment.
This covers actions of government. Nothing here says a private citizen can't camera peoples exposed undies in public.
Fourth amendment
================
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Hey man! I complained when I lost my clippy!
Well.. kinda....
I had the damn thing scripted up via a python Comm script to turn on @ 5pm And threaten to launch porn windows all over my screen if I didn't stop what I was doing, turn the machine off, go home and have a beer.
On the other hand, Clippy did actually suck. I just kinda tweaked it to suck less.
Holy cow does it ever. .. somewhat stupidly decided to investigate the sucker by launching Zonealarm & clicking on the preview to examine the attachment.... in outlook (9am coffee brain here) and the SLAMBO! The thing autolaunched outa the preview frame (IFRAME vunerability) and instantly smacked zonealarm down and started firing. Gah!
I
Anyway, it took me all of about 20 seconds to kill it, but I tell ya, that was the first time I've been goofed by a virus since friggin' no_frills_dudley 10 years ago... Time to update those virus patterns I think!.
And yes, kick me. It was a stupid experiment, but I figured I wanted to know just what WAS the junk flooding my email server.
No. That's what the law OUGHT to say, but it doesn't. That's why the judgment was as it was. Why is this difficult to understand?
Yes! And they sold me BOMBS AND CANCER as substitutes for pet food too. Terrible terrible. My poor dog caught defamation and couldnt enjoy pro-bonos for months after.