The better bots can see through filename mangling. We have those where I work, and we use them to spot warez and MP3 sites. The REALLY good bots read the headers of all the files, and ID the file types that way, so it doesn't matter what you name them.
A friend of mine is webmaster at a university. They have a daemon that trolls all the files in userland, spots MP3s by the file header, and deletes the files...
...but not before copying them to the admin's secret MP3 stash.:) They have, well, lots of MP3s in there now. 16k uniques last I heard, but I bet it is a lot higher now.
Yes, it sucks that they do this. There are legitimate uses for MP3. But, but that's life... If the students want to use university resources, they have to play by university rules.
That was Pathfinder, yeah. They also used some off-the-shelf radios for rover/base comms. They then spent a few million bucks qualifying the hardware for space use.
However, they didn't run the hardware through the ringer. If we had a strong solar flare it could have wiped out those radios. It was a calculated risk, to save money.
>The Powers That Be in The Company must feel that they are "in control."
Well, yeah, they must not only feel it, it must be TRUE for them to do their job effectively! What are they, the Boy Scouts? It's a US government intelligence agency, for Pete's sake!
Either secrets are worth keeping, or they are not. The CIA must maintain solid control over its infosystems. What's so hard to understand about that?
Would you let a luser make arbitrary modifications to inetd.conf, install their own CGIs or just su to root whenever they felt like it?
>The Company doesn't want stars, they want people who follow orders and procedures.
Good. I want that at the CIA too. Those guys have an important job, and they should do it right. They aren't paid to chat each other up in some stupid non-approved app.
Wish I had the points to mod this up. I feel exactly the same way.
>Still, property rights are the most fundemental human rights, after all.
I'd have to give the right to self-defense the vote there. And I'm not talking about guns. Fists, sticks, whatever. If someone tries to hurt you, you should have the right to stop him.
In DE, I hear that if someone invades your home and threatens you, you MUST RETREAT. If you have any possible way to exit the situation, you must try, and you cannot employ force in your defence. Even in CA there are circumstances where you can defend yourself in this situation.
That's the kind of madness I want to stop.
(If I have mischaracterized the sitation in DE, someone please reply.)
>Because, let's face it, the US of A really needs
>to start being responsible for what it's doing
>to the environment.
>The country that gave us SUV's...
>Am I the only person who finds themselves wildly swinging back and forth between sort of fevered anticpation of this series and totally cynical distrust?
I was swinging back and forth, but now I am stuck on Cynical Distrust. I have heard about some of the changes that will be made and IMHO they are bad ideas.
- There are supposed to be a load of Elves fighting at Helm's Deep. Of course, this didn't happen.
- What's her name, Liv Tyler (Arwen?) will be traveling with the Company. Altering the fundamental makeup of the story this way is spooky. They may as well throw in a freaking Space Monkey like Lost in Space did.
The films will clearly be a different version of the story, and I am extremely skeptical that the end result will be quality. I think there are some books that really can't make the transition to film well. LOTR is one. Neuromancer is another. Sometimes the imagination is the best palette.
All that said -- I think that this will be a cool trilogy in its own way -- it will just disappoint the Tolkien purist in me. I am expecting it to be a lot like Dune. In other words, it won't be true to the story, but it will be a lot of good eye candy that fits the world the story is set in, and I will enjoy it on that level.
(Dune sucked as a film, but the portrayal of the Harkonnen, Atreides, Spacing Guild, Mentats etc. was great. OK, except the Sardukar, they screwed that up...)
I don't think the IDSA needs a publisher's consent to move into action. This is what they DO, it's their prime function. Does the RIAA need an excuse to be a pain in the ass?
As a gamer I think this sucks, but I can sure see their point of view. Abandonware, despite the catchy name, is still piracy. It's people distributing commercial video games that aren't in the public domain.
As sad as it is, the publishers would rather let these games vanish, rather than letting us play them for free. After all, they may put out a compilation of classics someday, so they want to protect their rights. At least I assume that is their reasoning.
The students sign an agreement to live in the dorms. Part of this agreement opens them up to the IT group's "raids." Abuse your bandwidth by running a porn/warez site and you'll get a knock on the door in the morning, a Polaroid taken of your sleepy self, and you'll have to surrender your stuff.
The IT guys also have their systems set up to page them when spammers abuse the open ethernet ports in the library. Once they spot a spammer's MAC address on the network, they get a page telling them what floor and what port to go grab the guy on. Cool.
>People, guns are not the way to hold on to your rights.
They're not until the whole society has gone to hell in a handbasket, until there's nothing to lose and everything to win -- and then they are the ONLY way.
Most pro-RKBA people aren't advocating crazy stuff like shooting FBI agents who are serving a search warrant. Instead, we are trying to hold on to this essential liberty so we have some insurance should the "dark times" come upon us. Which isn't going to happen in a year, or 5, or 10, probably -- but what about 100 years in the future? 500? Can any of us see that far ahead? Of course not.
Things could get REALLY bad, even in America, given enough time. Bad enough that Joe Average Citizen Taxpayer might contemplate violence to protect himself from the state. And in that case, Joe better have a rifle.
I think that is the pro-RKBA argument in a nutshell.
A friend of mine works in IT at a big university. The dorm IT guys not only cooperate with the cops, they will enter dorms and seize equipment THEMSELVES. This has happened a number of times when students ran, for example, a commercial porn site out of a dorm room.
The school IT guys will cooperate (bend over) for the FBI if they are smart -- you don't want to get the feds pissed at you, and what do you do when you need them? Best to maintaina good working relationship.
Besides, if the cops show up with a warrant, the school has no legal grounds to interfere. They have to show the feds to the dorm door and play along, unless they want to get in trouble for obstructing justice or something.
I got the numbers from the link I posted. Took about 10 seconds to find via Google. It sounds high to me too, but it's in print, so it must be true, right?
I never said Sony shouldn't ship a broadband adapter. I was just making an observation that broadband's hype has far, far exceeded it's reach.
I like the fact that Sony thinks ahead and gave it a network port, but broadband isn't "here" for most people. 11% of US households have cable/DSL today.
11% isn't much. It will still bw a while before enough people have a fat enough pipe to justify all those web sites that are larded up with Flash and other junk. (But that's a rant for another day.)
If I could plug my PS2 into my LAN and give it Internet access -- that was USEFUL, like trading game saves or something, and didn't cost extra -- I would be in more of a hurry to get one.
I actually visited this crater on a tour of the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. It was one of the most amazing things on a mind-blowing tour. (Yes, you can go on a tour. Just call their public affairs office and represent your club or whatever. You too can stand 1000' from ground zero at an above-ground test, or look into the Sedan crater.)
The guys giving the tour -- retirees who likes to come back and play tour guide -- had a LOT of cool stories, and even more that they couldn't tell us because they are still secret. They did mention that Project Plowshare had tested a multiple-detonation channel-digging project. We didn't get to see that... I have been trying for years to find photos, but no luck.
You and your giant brain may be above the pellets that the entertainment industry dishes out. Good for you. But the other 99% of the US is getting their information -- all of it -- from a decreasing number of sources.
If this doesn't bother you, then I envy your undersea hideaway, or wherever it is that you live.
If it's fully configurable, that's one thing... have to wait and see. Hopefully these are just pre-placed bookmarks, and not the complete infoscape for this device. But nothing would surprise me anymore, since they transfered me to Sales at work.
The crackers/hackers thing is like the Trekkers/Trekkies argument. Enough already. Who cares?
The term "crackers" came along after "hackers" was already in wide use, when "hackers" tried to differentiate themselves from the black hats.
Guess what? It didn't take. Joe Blow doesn't even know the term "cracker." To Joe Blow, all computer geeks are hackers, and some can be good, and some can be bad, but all are clever.
We don't have a word for "evil wizard" as opposed to "wizard," after all.
MS doesn't have a large stake in Apple. I don't think they own a significant amount of stock -- if they own any. They did give Apple $150M a couple of years ago when both companies made a show of "playing nice," but that was pure symbolism. Apple has a couple billion bucks in cash reserve, so the MS money was only a gesture.
It is thought that MS won't buy any chunk of Apple because it would make them REALLY look bad to government regulators.
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The better bots can see through filename mangling. We have those where I work, and we use them to spot warez and MP3 sites. The REALLY good bots read the headers of all the files, and ID the file types that way, so it doesn't matter what you name them.
A friend of mine is webmaster at a university. They have a daemon that trolls all the files in userland, spots MP3s by the file header, and deletes the files...
...but not before copying them to the admin's secret MP3 stash.
Yes, it sucks that they do this. There are legitimate uses for MP3. But, but that's life... If the students want to use university resources, they have to play by university rules.
Oh my god. My wife just looked at the picture and realized that the robot is dancing The Macarena. (I am not making this up.)
That was Pathfinder, yeah. They also used some off-the-shelf radios for rover/base comms. They then spent a few million bucks qualifying the hardware for space use.
However, they didn't run the hardware through the ringer. If we had a strong solar flare it could have wiped out those radios. It was a calculated risk, to save money.
>The Powers That Be in The Company must feel that they are "in control."
Well, yeah, they must not only feel it, it must be TRUE for them to do their job effectively! What are they, the Boy Scouts? It's a US government intelligence agency, for Pete's sake!
Either secrets are worth keeping, or they are not. The CIA must maintain solid control over its infosystems. What's so hard to understand about that?
Would you let a luser make arbitrary modifications to inetd.conf, install their own CGIs or just su to root whenever they felt like it?
>The Company doesn't want stars, they want people who follow orders and procedures.
Good. I want that at the CIA too. Those guys have an important job, and they should do it right. They aren't paid to chat each other up in some stupid non-approved app.
Wish I had the points to mod this up. I feel exactly the same way.
>Still, property rights are the most fundemental human rights, after all.
I'd have to give the right to self-defense the vote there. And I'm not talking about guns. Fists, sticks, whatever. If someone tries to hurt you, you should have the right to stop him.
In DE, I hear that if someone invades your home and threatens you, you MUST RETREAT. If you have any possible way to exit the situation, you must try, and you cannot employ force in your defence. Even in CA there are circumstances where you can defend yourself in this situation.
That's the kind of madness I want to stop.
(If I have mischaracterized the sitation in DE, someone please reply.)
>Because, let's face it, the US of A really needs
>to start being responsible for what it's doing
>to the environment.
>The country that gave us SUV's...
And where did Land Rovers come from?
>Am I the only person who finds themselves wildly swinging back and forth between sort of fevered anticpation of this series and totally cynical distrust?
I was swinging back and forth, but now I am stuck on Cynical Distrust. I have heard about some of the changes that will be made and IMHO they are bad ideas.
- There are supposed to be a load of Elves fighting at Helm's Deep. Of course, this didn't happen.
- What's her name, Liv Tyler (Arwen?) will be traveling with the Company. Altering the fundamental makeup of the story this way is spooky. They may as well throw in a freaking Space Monkey like Lost in Space did.
The films will clearly be a different version of the story, and I am extremely skeptical that the end result will be quality. I think there are some books that really can't make the transition to film well. LOTR is one. Neuromancer is another. Sometimes the imagination is the best palette.
All that said -- I think that this will be a cool trilogy in its own way -- it will just disappoint the Tolkien purist in me. I am expecting it to be a lot like Dune. In other words, it won't be true to the story, but it will be a lot of good eye candy that fits the world the story is set in, and I will enjoy it on that level.
(Dune sucked as a film, but the portrayal of the Harkonnen, Atreides, Spacing Guild, Mentats etc. was great. OK, except the Sardukar, they screwed that up...)
>who are they representing in these cases?
I don't think the IDSA needs a publisher's consent to move into action. This is what they DO, it's their prime function. Does the RIAA need an excuse to be a pain in the ass?
As a gamer I think this sucks, but I can sure see their point of view. Abandonware, despite the catchy name, is still piracy. It's people distributing commercial video games that aren't in the public domain.
As sad as it is, the publishers would rather let these games vanish, rather than letting us play them for free. After all, they may put out a compilation of classics someday, so they want to protect their rights. At least I assume that is their reasoning.
Time to start downloading.
I think he still runs CP/M at home.
If only it had managed to touch off a Linux/BSD flamewar, it would be perfect!
So high school was tough. It was tough for me too. It was tough for a lot of people.
Do you think that kids were a lot better off 50 years ago? 100? 500? Did the kids in ancient Sparta not pick on each other?
Being a kid has always been tough. It's not a problem with our society. It's part of being human. It's just life, and we have to deal with it.
The students sign an agreement to live in the dorms. Part of this agreement opens them up to the IT group's "raids." Abuse your bandwidth by running a porn/warez site and you'll get a knock on the door in the morning, a Polaroid taken of your sleepy self, and you'll have to surrender your stuff.
The IT guys also have their systems set up to page them when spammers abuse the open ethernet ports in the library. Once they spot a spammer's MAC address on the network, they get a page telling them what floor and what port to go grab the guy on. Cool.
>People, guns are not the way to hold on to your rights.
They're not until the whole society has gone to hell in a handbasket, until there's nothing to lose and everything to win -- and then they are the ONLY way.
Most pro-RKBA people aren't advocating crazy stuff like shooting FBI agents who are serving a search warrant. Instead, we are trying to hold on to this essential liberty so we have some insurance should the "dark times" come upon us. Which isn't going to happen in a year, or 5, or 10, probably -- but what about 100 years in the future? 500? Can any of us see that far ahead? Of course not.
Things could get REALLY bad, even in America, given enough time. Bad enough that Joe Average Citizen Taxpayer might contemplate violence to protect himself from the state. And in that case, Joe better have a rifle.
I think that is the pro-RKBA argument in a nutshell.
A friend of mine works in IT at a big university. The dorm IT guys not only cooperate with the cops, they will enter dorms and seize equipment THEMSELVES. This has happened a number of times when students ran, for example, a commercial porn site out of a dorm room.
The school IT guys will cooperate (bend over) for the FBI if they are smart -- you don't want to get the feds pissed at you, and what do you do when you need them? Best to maintaina good working relationship.
Besides, if the cops show up with a warrant, the school has no legal grounds to interfere. They have to show the feds to the dorm door and play along, unless they want to get in trouble for obstructing justice or something.
I got the numbers from the link I posted. Took about 10 seconds to find via Google. It sounds high to me too, but it's in print, so it must be true, right?
I never said Sony shouldn't ship a broadband adapter. I was just making an observation that broadband's hype has far, far exceeded it's reach.
I like the fact that Sony thinks ahead and gave it a network port, but broadband isn't "here" for most people. 11% of US households have cable/DSL today.
http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/broadban
11% isn't much. It will still bw a while before enough people have a fat enough pipe to justify all those web sites that are larded up with Flash and other junk. (But that's a rant for another day.)
If I could plug my PS2 into my LAN and give it Internet access -- that was USEFUL, like trading game saves or something, and didn't cost extra -- I would be in more of a hurry to get one.
It was indeed Project Plowshare. They fired a lot of test shots in Nevada. One of the most famous is the Sedan crater:
e s/part2.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/trinity/articl
I actually visited this crater on a tour of the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. It was one of the most amazing things on a mind-blowing tour. (Yes, you can go on a tour. Just call their public affairs office and represent your club or whatever. You too can stand 1000' from ground zero at an above-ground test, or look into the Sedan crater.)
The guys giving the tour -- retirees who likes to come back and play tour guide -- had a LOT of cool stories, and even more that they couldn't tell us because they are still secret. They did mention that Project Plowshare had tested a multiple-detonation channel-digging project. We didn't get to see that... I have been trying for years to find photos, but no luck.
If that's your point of view, get cracking. You've got a lot of work to do to convince people. Maybe you should start a cult with poison Kool-Aid.
>the U.S. government has been known to harass and even kill U.S. citizens as a favor to some U.S. friendly dictator
I am as much of a conspiracy buff as the next guy, but I can't let this one slide. Examples? Evidence? Even shaky evidence will be a good start.
You and your giant brain may be above the pellets that the entertainment industry dishes out. Good for you. But the other 99% of the US is getting their information -- all of it -- from a decreasing number of sources.
If this doesn't bother you, then I envy your undersea hideaway, or wherever it is that you live.
I think a tcsh prompt is a new interface for the Mac. You've got it in OSX.
Sounds like you have a gripe with GUIs in general, not just the Mac.
Ugh. I don't want to pay for this thing, which exists ONLY to push branded content at me, apparently. Lool at the brands visible in these images:
http://www.onebahamas.com/audrey/ch_fullsize_01
http://www.onebahamas.com/audrey/ch_fullsize_03
http://www.onebahamas.com/audrey/ch_fullsize_02
If it's fully configurable, that's one thing... have to wait and see. Hopefully these are just pre-placed bookmarks, and not the complete infoscape for this device. But nothing would surprise me anymore, since they transfered me to Sales at work.
The crackers/hackers thing is like the Trekkers/Trekkies argument. Enough already. Who cares?
The term "crackers" came along after "hackers" was already in wide use, when "hackers" tried to differentiate themselves from the black hats.
Guess what? It didn't take. Joe Blow doesn't even know the term "cracker." To Joe Blow, all computer geeks are hackers, and some can be good, and some can be bad, but all are clever.
We don't have a word for "evil wizard" as opposed to "wizard," after all.
MS doesn't have a large stake in Apple. I don't think they own a significant amount of stock -- if they own any. They did give Apple $150M a couple of years ago when both companies made a show of "playing nice," but that was pure symbolism. Apple has a couple billion bucks in cash reserve, so the MS money was only a gesture.
It is thought that MS won't buy any chunk of Apple because it would make them REALLY look bad to government regulators.
>People in America are complete whores who will do anything for money.
Yeah, and the rest of the world is a moral and intellectual paradise.