Doesn't anybody think that the threat of a potential 60 years in prison and over a million in fines is reason enough for sysadmins to use their powers responsibly?
Cellphones aren't going to leave the car. They are fact of life now, get used to it. The alternative to talking and driving is to attempt to pull over and answer the phone before the other end hangs up. Which one is going to be more dangerous?
Our geek waste is a huge problem that really hasn't been addressed. When you obsolete gear every 6 months, you tend to get a lot of old gear piling up. What happens to that gear? Eventually it ends up in places like China where it gets "recycled" in a very environmentally unhealthy way. The only way to stop this kind of thing is to hit us where it counts, in the wallet. The cost to the planet and to us all needs to be represented in the cost of the product.
The Zaurus is really cool. My boss has one and I really got a kick out of playing with it. The biggest problem with the thing is its size. There's no way it would fit in your pocket, even if you're wearing geek pants. A requirement for all modern PDAs should be a form factor smaller than the Palm III.
It'll be a really cool toy once it fails and ends up in the bargin bin though.
I didn't see anyone mention writing your own projects. The thing that always bored me with CS in school was that the projects sucked. I spent half the time working on my own thing and half the time studying. I walked with under a 3.0 but I learned a helluva lot more than most of the 4.0'ers. Rediscover the joy of coding by coding for yourself, not your prof.
Couldn't we make an EXTRA.DAT (McAfee emergency DAT add-on) using one or more of those strings.. I've been trying to for the last hour with little luck.. Anybody have info on the format of EXTRA.DAT? At first glance it looks to just be a string of bytes but the last line has four (looks like) words follwed by the name of the virus. My best guess is that the words are offsets, but I cannot be sure. I'm trying to run some tests of an EXTRA.DAT for W32/APost@MM against a knwown copy of W32/APost and am getting nowhere.
I think that something like diff would lend it self better to spam detection.
People forward their spam to a database. The database searches for similar entries using diff or keyword searches. Once the database gets two or three variants of a single piece of spam it should be able to come up with a pattern match. Sure it'd be CPU intensive, but someone clever could distribute it. It'd end up being kind of like a virus scanner.
They could boot off the network and just use the local drives as database storage. I've always thought that something like the NetApp should be made for CPU/Mbs. Something like a 12RU case filled with motherboards and CPUs all booting off a common embedded server.
Regardless you're going to need a huge screwdriver staff to maintain all that hardware. But the actual maintenance would be relatively brainless.
Do those 8000 machines do the spidering, search requests and CGI? Does that mean that popular keywords get sent to the most loaded down servers? Is it possible to map it out? Just a thought.
Or find someone who has an ISP gig and sneak a server into colocation. Either that or team up with some people on a colo. For webhosting colo is the only way to go.
The killer app as the dominating force in hardware is nothing new. Cringely has talked about it for years. Lotus 1-2-3 sold the original IBM PC. The Web, Napster and MP3s sold the latest generation of hardware upgrades. Video is coming up next. DivX;-) is great at chewing cycles, real-time encoding Tivo-style would be nice.
AI is definately going to be a Big Thing at some point. Neural Networks for desicion making would be extremely cool. Tack one onto napster and let it download music it thinks you'd like, and get it right! Where are my translating telephones? Where's the web shopping bots? Let's get rolling on all this Kurzweilian stuff before Bill Joy breaks up the party. just a thought.
A crash won't happen until you've got dog food companies making classics like 'Chase the Chuckwagon', or games whose hero is the Kool-Aid man. Modern games cost WAY too much to produce.
The playstation2 will get it's killer app and dominate the market.
The dreamcast, with its internet features and some really innovative games (Jet Set Radio fits IMHO) will have a diehard following. I don't think Sega will make much more money from it though.
The gamecube will once again please Mario/Zelda/Metroid fans. I doubt it'll unseat Sony though -- we'll see.
XBox and Indrema are up in the air. Either one could succeed with a killer app or by moving more towards an appliance.
That's my take on the current situation. Take it for what it's worth, nothing. I highly doubt there will be a crash though. Atari was being stubborn (so stubborn that they still tried to compete with Nintendo years later -- under 50 bucks!) and everyone seemed to think that Atari WAS videogames. It would be as if Sony just kept on kicking out Playstation1 games, and nobody paid attention to anyone else. Videogames are big business now, there won't be anymore crashes.
It appears upcdatabase.com is slashdotted at the moment. Where's the article you're refering to Taco? UPC codes have been around a lot longer than CueCat so I'm just curious what they think they could possibly sue upcdatabase for?
This will certainly do a great deal to keep the price of the Playstation2 high until after Christmas. The supply problem could actually hurt their software sales some, (less ps2s==less customers) which is where all the profit is at.
I tried it and AIM let me on okay with my ICQ, but then kicked me off for already being online. Guess it detected my ICQ session, but I wonder why they go through the trouble?
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All the hoopla over banning the violent games just makes them more popular. Look what happened to mortal kombat, it's not even a very good game and they ended up making sequel after sequel.
The US hasn't had the need for a wireless network that Europe and Asia have had. Our land lines still work quite well. In some parts of Asia they have to worry about people stealing them. It simply isn't as necessary in the US as it is in other places. Hence the defecit.
Using the keyboard port for imput from a bar code reader is common practice. This is called a wedge interface. It just types in the code. You do have to be able to print codes in a format that the reader will recognize for it to work for your own applications.
jinj:/.,fm,email,others on your alpha pager or text cell phone.
Check out silophone, it's by the same group that did the printer symphony. It's a giant grain silo in montreal that is hooked up to the internet. You can upload/play a sound in this thing and hear it reverberate live. It's pretty amazing.
Why make any application trade a few or only one file type. It's all files, trade away. How about adding useful features like descriptions and some MD5 verification. I'm sick of getting partials.
To the whiners. You're not going to stop it, just let it go. Offer an alternative for christ's sake, how long is it going to take? The RIAA (and others) are just making it worse for themselves.
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Dragon Go Server is a great way play by e-mail. Great for that morning fix.
Doesn't anybody think that the threat of a potential 60 years in prison and over a million in fines is reason enough for sysadmins to use their powers responsibly?
Cellphones aren't going to leave the car. They are fact of life now, get used to it. The alternative to talking and driving is to attempt to pull over and answer the phone before the other end hangs up. Which one is going to be more dangerous?
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The Zaurus is really cool. My boss has one and I really got a kick out of playing with it. The biggest problem with the thing is its size. There's no way it would fit in your pocket, even if you're wearing geek pants. A requirement for all modern PDAs should be a form factor smaller than the Palm III.
It'll be a really cool toy once it fails and ends up in the bargin bin though.
I didn't see anyone mention writing your own projects. The thing that always bored me with CS in school was that the projects sucked. I spent half the time working on my own thing and half the time studying. I walked with under a 3.0 but I learned a helluva lot more than most of the 4.0'ers. Rediscover the joy of coding by coding for yourself, not your prof.
Here's some quickie detection methods.
y MD Ax
grep for "Concept Virus(CV) V.5, Copyright(C)2001 R.P.China"
or a perl script to do the same:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$SIG = <<EOF;
436f 6e63
6570 7420 5669 7275 7328 4356 2920 562e
352c 2043 6f70 7972 6967 6874 2843 2932
3030 3120 2052 2e50 2e43 6869 6e61 0000
EOF
$SIG =~ s/\s//g;
$SIG =~ s/([\dabcdef]{2})/chr(hex($1))/ge;
while () {
if (index($_,$SIG)>=0) {
print STDERR "W32/Nimada.A\@MM DETECTED!\n";
exit 128;
}
}
MIME Encoded the Signature is:
Q29uY2VwdCBWaXJ1cyhDVikgVi41LCBDb3B5cmlnaHQoQyk
(make sure you remove the space at the end between MD and Ax. Slashdot adds it to prevent long strings from breaking formatting)
Couldn't we make an EXTRA.DAT (McAfee emergency DAT add-on) using one or more of those strings.. I've been trying to for the last hour with little luck.. Anybody have info on the format of EXTRA.DAT? At first glance it looks to just be a string of bytes but the last line has four (looks like) words follwed by the name of the virus. My best guess is that the words are offsets, but I cannot be sure. I'm trying to run some tests of an EXTRA.DAT for W32/APost@MM against a knwown copy of W32/APost and am getting nowhere.
Great internet scam? Maybe. Last internet scam? Definately not.
Check out Roger Parloff of Inside.com's column on why Dmitry should not be freed. I don't necessarily agree but it's good to play devils advocate.
People forward their spam to a database. The database searches for similar entries using diff or keyword searches. Once the database gets two or three variants of a single piece of spam it should be able to come up with a pattern match. Sure it'd be CPU intensive, but someone clever could distribute it. It'd end up being kind of like a virus scanner.
There's a slashdot japan? I had no idea. What other slashdot 's are there?
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They could boot off the network and just use the local drives as database storage. I've always thought that something like the NetApp should be made for CPU/Mbs. Something like a 12RU case filled with motherboards and CPUs all booting off a common embedded server.
Regardless you're going to need a huge screwdriver staff to maintain all that hardware. But the actual maintenance would be relatively brainless.
Do those 8000 machines do the spidering, search requests and CGI? Does that mean that popular keywords get sent to the most loaded down servers? Is it possible to map it out? Just a thought.
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Or find someone who has an ISP gig and sneak a server into colocation. Either that or team up with some people on a colo. For webhosting colo is the only way to go.
AI is definately going to be a Big Thing at some point. Neural Networks for desicion making would be extremely cool. Tack one onto napster and let it download music it thinks you'd like, and get it right! Where are my translating telephones? Where's the web shopping bots? Let's get rolling on all this Kurzweilian stuff before Bill Joy breaks up the party. just a thought.
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The playstation2 will get it's killer app and dominate the market.
The dreamcast, with its internet features and some really innovative games (Jet Set Radio fits IMHO) will have a diehard following. I don't think Sega will make much more money from it though.
The gamecube will once again please Mario/Zelda/Metroid fans. I doubt it'll unseat Sony though -- we'll see.
XBox and Indrema are up in the air. Either one could succeed with a killer app or by moving more towards an appliance.
That's my take on the current situation. Take it for what it's worth, nothing. I highly doubt there will be a crash though. Atari was being stubborn (so stubborn that they still tried to compete with Nintendo years later -- under 50 bucks!) and everyone seemed to think that Atari WAS videogames. It would be as if Sony just kept on kicking out Playstation1 games, and nobody paid attention to anyone else. Videogames are big business now, there won't be anymore crashes.
It appears upcdatabase.com is slashdotted at the moment. Where's the article you're refering to Taco? UPC codes have been around a lot longer than CueCat so I'm just curious what they think they could possibly sue upcdatabase for?
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This will certainly do a great deal to keep the price of the Playstation2 high until after Christmas. The supply problem could actually hurt their software sales some, (less ps2s==less customers) which is where all the profit is at.
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I tried it and AIM let me on okay with my ICQ, but then kicked me off for already being online. Guess it detected my ICQ session, but I wonder why they go through the trouble?
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All the hoopla over banning the violent games just makes them more popular. Look what happened to mortal kombat, it's not even a very good game and they ended up making sequel after sequel.
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The US hasn't had the need for a wireless network that Europe and Asia have had. Our land lines still work quite well. In some parts of Asia they have to worry about people stealing them. It simply isn't as necessary in the US as it is in other places. Hence the defecit.
jplt
Using the keyboard port for imput from a bar code reader is common practice. This is called a wedge interface. It just types in the code. You do have to be able to print codes in a format that the reader will recognize for it to work for your own applications.
/.,fm,email,others on your alpha pager or text cell phone.
jinj:
A good SQL implementation should let you quote everything, even numbers. Then you can simply backslash your quotes.
Check out silophone, it's by the same group that did the printer symphony. It's a giant grain silo in montreal that is hooked up to the internet. You can upload/play a sound in this thing and hear it reverberate live. It's pretty amazing.
More silophone links
Why make any application trade a few or only one file type. It's all files, trade away. How about adding useful features like descriptions and some MD5 verification. I'm sick of getting partials.
To the whiners. You're not going to stop it, just let it go. Offer an alternative for christ's sake, how long is it going to take? The RIAA (and others) are just making it worse for themselves.