Actually, I watched it. While it definantly had problems, it definantly was one of the better hacker-type films. The Microsoft references were over-the-top.. but at the same time, one of the characters wore ThinkGeek's "Code Poet" tshirt. Anyways, I'd recomend picking it up as a rental, anyways. Should be coming out fairly soon....
Napster (and MP3s in general) have been the reason behind all the CDs I've bought in the last 3 years (yes, I'm away that napster hasn't been around for that long.. but don't think you can't find them elsewhere). I hear a single on the radio. That's not enough to cause me to spend $15 or what not on an entire album, the rest of the songs might suck. so I download a few other songs by the artist. I like, I may well put it on my list of 'to buy'. zero risk of getting caught.. well, yes, but also zero risk of trying different music.
I'm 17, and I have two slide rules.. though I don't know how to use them. I've looked, on and off, for instructions.. but never motivated enough to really find out.
Internet empty during the finale of Next Gen? Well, I certainly know I wasn't online. But, hey, it's easy enough to shoot down. TNG was (and is) syndicated. The finale was on at different times in every city (or however far depending on your TV habits).
I completely agree. I was looking forward to Dark Angel, even enough to change my regular TV-watching (Freaks and Geeks on Fox Family, Tuesdays, 7-9 pm central, best show that NBC ever fucked in the ass)... It has some cool points, but just isn't executed right.
Anyways, I dont' have much to add, just that it isn't just you.
Damn you! now I have to change my opinion of you from "stupid slashdot commenter/karmawhore" to "intellegent fool for which I was his bait"... Damnation!
there is the small problem that you can't patent a word. you're looking for trademark... normally I wouldn't respond to something like this, but, hell, this is a contest for patents! stupid patents != redefining what a patent can cover.
"For economic reasons, almost all the women in the cities end up selling sex, but none will admit to it...." By `selling' do you mean `being in a relationship because their boyfriend/husband can pay their way, rather than for love'? That I might believe (us humans are an unhappy bunch).. but almost everybody selling, openly, like prostitutes, I can't believe....
What is the difference? My sources (_The Sizesaurus_ by Stephen Strauss, and dictionary.com) list it at something along the lines of "a unit of speed in data transmission, usually equal to one bit or pulse per second".. Seems pretty equal..
Then get DeCSS/css_unscramble() as a legal alias.. keep using your given name, but also have it as a name.. or the other way, so you could still sign "Mr. Bigglesworth" or whatever your real name might be.
Well, I would argue that flawed models cause data which doesn't fit to be thrown out. I would argue that every current model we have for any system (mechanical, electrical, molecular, atmoic, what ever) is flawed, but the best we got. When you turn the model from best-so-far into absolute-fact is when you have trouble. The big example is quantum physics. Nobody could accept it, it had to be a mistake. It fit data better, but it still didn't cause the old model to be tossed until all the old scientists died, and young'ins replaced them, ready to accept the weirdness.
Models certainly influence our thinking, but only as much as we let them. Unfortuantly, the higher math required to understand some complex stuff tends to force our brains into losing their flexibility.
There's a big difference between getting busted for hack/cracking and stealing office equipment. Hell, by that logic, someone who got busted drinking in high school is surely a crackpot.
Respect the laws.. I know I don't. Does that make me untrustworthy, incapable of being a functional member of society? I sure as hell hope not. I speed, I break legal curfew, I ignore required education. I download MP3s (while these have lead to me to each and every CD I've purchased in the last 4 years, they're illegal). I have a copy of DeCSS (immoral, no, illegal.. appariently yes). I sometimes pirate software. If it's worth my hard drive space, and not too difficult (ie not abandonware), I'll buy it as soon as I can afford a copy.
I don't respect the laws that tell me what to do to my own body. I haven't chosen to partake in such things, but the legal barrier wouldn't stop me. I don't respect laws that protect stupid people from themselves. Want a computer? don't whine to your lawmakers when you make a bad decision and get shafted. The dealer lies to you, that's one thing. You buy bad parts, you're at fault.
A criminal record really doesn't mean much about a person. Computer crimes have a way of being grossly exagerated. Damages quickly add up when you can put down whatever number you want and a jury'll say "computers... duh.. expensive."
Anyways, a security firm shouldn't just trust anybody.. use the same criteria as with anybody else. Maybe keep an extra eye on 'em..
Yep, binary black holes are very possible. You'd probably have one black hole capture another black hole as it's wandering through the galaxy. I would imagine that it'd be fairly unstable, though, probably would last too long (one either suck up the other (or both sucking up each other), or one breaking free of it's orbit.
damn, I'd like to see the art of a star simulatenously being sucked into two different blackies....
MSN is also a pretty simple dial-up PPP setup. hardly special stuff. using the sat would mostly likely involve special (read proprietary) hardware. MS is unlikely to port it to a non-windoze version, and it probably won't be easy to hack.
Can't comment on FCC regs, but it would rather suprise me if you could do sat transmissions without a permit (and expensive equipment).
But, yes, it's extremely easy to eavesdrop on sat communications. the only thing holding it back is that encryption. Other than that, just about anybody anywhere could listen in. The trouble would arrive when you try to figure out who requested what documents:)
my guess would be that each transmission would start with a ID number, which says who gets what, and that it's encrypted, then decrypted in hardware by the satellite dish/receiver/whatever, unique to that dish. Of course, I really don't know, and this is a pretty random guess. moderate security, pretty expensive (although not overly difficult) to eavesdrop.
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Actually, I watched it. While it definantly had problems, it definantly was one of the better hacker-type films. The Microsoft references were over-the-top.. but at the same time, one of the characters wore ThinkGeek's "Code Poet" tshirt. Anyways, I'd recomend picking it up as a rental, anyways. Should be coming out fairly soon....
Napster (and MP3s in general) have been the reason behind all the CDs I've bought in the last 3 years (yes, I'm away that napster hasn't been around for that long.. but don't think you can't find them elsewhere). I hear a single on the radio. That's not enough to cause me to spend $15 or what not on an entire album, the rest of the songs might suck. so I download a few other songs by the artist. I like, I may well put it on my list of 'to buy'. zero risk of getting caught.. well, yes, but also zero risk of trying different music.
just where I stand
Not only that, but Michelangelo made the David, not da Vinci.
Eaten by Jawas... hell, I can see that. Kinda like that scene in Galaxy Quest with the cute lil grey dudes! I'd like to see that. a lot.
I'm 17, and I have two slide rules.. though I don't know how to use them. I've looked, on and off, for instructions.. but never motivated enough to really find out.
Internet empty during the finale of Next Gen? Well, I certainly know I wasn't online. But, hey, it's easy enough to shoot down. TNG was (and is) syndicated. The finale was on at different times in every city (or however far depending on your TV habits).
Anyways, I dont' have much to add, just that it isn't just you.
ahh well, I salute you sir. :)
there is the small problem that you can't patent a word. you're looking for trademark... normally I wouldn't respond to something like this, but, hell, this is a contest for patents! stupid patents != redefining what a patent can cover.
thanks
"For economic reasons, almost all the women in the cities end up selling sex, but none will admit to it...." By `selling' do you mean `being in a relationship because their boyfriend/husband can pay their way, rather than for love'? That I might believe (us humans are an unhappy bunch).. but almost everybody selling, openly, like prostitutes, I can't believe....
What is the difference? My sources (_The Sizesaurus_ by Stephen Strauss, and dictionary.com) list it at something along the lines of "a unit of speed in data transmission, usually equal to one bit or pulse per second".. Seems pretty equal..
You also need to give fingerprints to get a driver's license in some states (incl california).. HUGE chunks..
thanks much
Hey, any way I could get a hold of that? Just to play with.. something I've been interested in.
Then get DeCSS/css_unscramble() as a legal alias.. keep using your given name, but also have it as a name.. or the other way, so you could still sign "Mr. Bigglesworth" or whatever your real name might be.
How does that work? wouldn't having a -$25 balance make the card useless to you as well? I'm a wee bit confused...
Models certainly influence our thinking, but only as much as we let them. Unfortuantly, the higher math required to understand some complex stuff tends to force our brains into losing their flexibility.
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Hey, I tossed a hit your way not more than 2 weeks ago! should be somewhere in the 169.207.x.x range.. so BAH!
Respect the laws.. I know I don't. Does that make me untrustworthy, incapable of being a functional member of society? I sure as hell hope not. I speed, I break legal curfew, I ignore required education. I download MP3s (while these have lead to me to each and every CD I've purchased in the last 4 years, they're illegal). I have a copy of DeCSS (immoral, no, illegal.. appariently yes). I sometimes pirate software. If it's worth my hard drive space, and not too difficult (ie not abandonware), I'll buy it as soon as I can afford a copy.
I don't respect the laws that tell me what to do to my own body. I haven't chosen to partake in such things, but the legal barrier wouldn't stop me. I don't respect laws that protect stupid people from themselves. Want a computer? don't whine to your lawmakers when you make a bad decision and get shafted. The dealer lies to you, that's one thing. You buy bad parts, you're at fault.
A criminal record really doesn't mean much about a person. Computer crimes have a way of being grossly exagerated. Damages quickly add up when you can put down whatever number you want and a jury'll say "computers... duh.. expensive."
Anyways, a security firm shouldn't just trust anybody.. use the same criteria as with anybody else. Maybe keep an extra eye on 'em..
damn, I'd like to see the art of a star simulatenously being sucked into two different blackies....
andy? is that you? I should have known you're a slashdot reader...
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hmmm.. okay, never mind then.
MSN is also a pretty simple dial-up PPP setup. hardly special stuff. using the sat would mostly likely involve special (read proprietary) hardware. MS is unlikely to port it to a non-windoze version, and it probably won't be easy to hack.
But, yes, it's extremely easy to eavesdrop on sat communications. the only thing holding it back is that encryption. Other than that, just about anybody anywhere could listen in. The trouble would arrive when you try to figure out who requested what documents :)
my guess would be that each transmission would start with a ID number, which says who gets what, and that it's encrypted, then decrypted in hardware by the satellite dish/receiver/whatever, unique to that dish. Of course, I really don't know, and this is a pretty random guess. moderate security, pretty expensive (although not overly difficult) to eavesdrop.