I just saw the two guys on TV today. They solemnly shaked hands with a general of the Russian army before entering the rocket. Their space suits looked like something out of an early Apollo mission, and they were even dirtier than Bruce Willis' in the movie Armageddon.
Suppose they're going into space to blast a big asteroid to pieces and save us all? Why on (or off) earth do the Russians always get to have all the fun?
"Does it not in fact demostrate how hard it is to crack ECC?
No, you see: It's really as simple as 60 years ago, in WW2: When the Germans heard the words:
Certicom's ECC2k-108 Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm challenge has been broken!
they thought it meant
Elliptical curve Certicom ECC2k-108 was interrupted separate logarithm challenge!
which is in fact the result when you translate the words into German and back with Babelfish.
This, however, hasn't brought me any closer to understanding what we're discussing here. But I do know that, once the Americans learned how to decrypt the Germans, the war was won. And this is why we'll never be taken over by the machines - we're smarter than them, and we speak real German:-p
Excuse me for being offtopic. It won't happen again. Promise.
Two By Katz? Shouldn't that have been...
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...To Buy Katz? (to be quiet, that is)...
Sorry.
I couldn't resist the temptation.
Two signs that this is April's fool...
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1) When translated into Portuguese and back, it reads something like:
Well, since that Jon is pierced pparently in an airport that tries to start to the thing of the pride of Geek in Boston (this is true, for the way), we in slashdot thinks here that we would function some of its old columns another time.
2) The word geek doesn't translate into any of the following languages: French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Re:first post, cock knocker.
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How lowsy.
To be first-posting on something that's already been published before.
(moan)(strong)My karma is down to 3, my job is killing me - and now this! Why can't we all be friends with Microsoft? There are so many bad vibes in here,...man...(/strong)(/moan)
I think I remember George Bush (jr.) saying that he wouldn't allow a split-up. I don't suppose many slashdotters would vote for a guy like that. (Come to think of it, I don't suppose many slashdotters would vote for Bush at all).
Anyway, if they're still serious about breaking Microsoft into pieces, they're gonna have to crack Bill Gates' little head open. Because it's all in there, isn't it?
By the way: The downloadable tech preview of Windows Media Player 7 isn't capable with the RealPlayer audio format. And that's when RealNetworks licensed Microsoft's format just a few weeks ago to include it in their forthcoming software! Maybe there is something to that Microsoft/Macrosoft mess-up after all.
I'm aware that I'm walking in a minefield here, but:
Has it ever occurred to you how Netscape was rubbed in the dirt by Microsoft (of course it has) and how they (and the people cuurently working at the Mozilla project) are trying to gain the lost grounds? When topic = The Mozilla project, then the debate should be open for a few relevant questions. Problem is, the ideals behind Mozilla are so high that any posed question will inevidently sound like I'm brewing up a conspiracy theory. Anyway, here goes:
- Why is the Open Source phenomenon booming the way is? Could it have anything to do with the fact that the hours spent on designing it are relatively free of charge (of course it has)? Does this have anything at all to do with a general tendency towards glorifying anything Open Source? In other words, why is it a cool thing to participate in anything that's Open Source? And does this again have anything to do with the fact that the term 'Open Source' has been commercialized (you must agree it is, really - remember the Save Iridium project a few days ago). - ? Was Open Sourcing Mozilla the only way Netscape could stay alive? (think about how much publicity it has brought about).
I'm not being offensive, just trying to dig to the core of things. And of course the one question which dismisses all the above as a load of crap is this: What does it all matter as long as the users are in control?
Still, please think about it. I'm puzzled, as I'm not exactly a techie myself... does it make sense?
Since the news was posted at a quarter to midnight, I gather it's not a joke. But if it is, it's a poor one. If it isn't, then why is it such great news? Theming is for people who have too much time on their hands - in fact, a very special kind of people - the homo technofilius: People who love technology because it is technology, not because it can sometimes relieve the burden of existing.
Sorry about the ill-tempered reply, but I think it had to be said.
I'm sorry if this is offtopic - I just can't help it, and it's pretty interesting, too.
Here in Denmark the newspaper Berlingske Tidende brought an april's fool joke in the form of a breaking-news story: The main point of the article was that, for the last two years the U.S. have been monitoring the television habits of the Danes (As you may be aware the European privacy legislation is much stricter than the American, and here we're always overly freightened by everything American, especially Echelon).
According to the article the Americans have been registering people who have been watching hardcore porn on TV excessively. The information gathered will now, the article says, be used to limit access to the States for those people. In other words, if you're a Dane watching too much pornography it's not likely you'll be eligible to be a tourist in America.
What does this tell us?
1: That, compared to Americans, Europeans have minority complexes and second thoughts about the technological future. This I believe is the reason why everything is only now taking off here.
2: That april's fool jokes can be bad for your TV habits.
3: That there's a reason why Babelfish doesn't support translation from Danish to English and vice versa.
Hello? Who is it?..bzz...Oh, it's you, isn't it? It's you up thebzzzre, right?
...right, just a sec...
...yeah, on his way. In the meantime, could you please make a hole in the scrap belt - no, the scrap belt, not the meteor belt. I'm trying to watch the stars... what? Yes, I know we put it all there ourselves, but you're supposed to do the cleaning, aren't you? Well, go ahead and remove it then! How many times do I have to tell you?
...wait. Alright, hang on.
No sorry, he just left. I'll check if anybody else can help you. Hey everybody, there's some freak on the phone! Pretty hysterical, claims he's an almighty something, wants someone to write a piece on heavenly junk and post it on/. - anybody know how to control this guy?
In my opinion, Bruce Sterling is right. The rise and fall of the 66 Iridium tincans not only symbolize how things can, well, er, go wrong in business. There's a statement about my long-gone innocence and childhood in each and every one of those useless pieces of scrap. And now it's all stuck somewhere in a network of wires around the globe - how not very adventurous.
Also, I'm really gonna miss the two norwegians trying to cross the North Pole by foot, (not) communicating only to the outside world via...Iridium.
Risking the danger of being moderated down: What's so great about this ruling? Anybody can design a nice e-business website, but more often than not it's the content of the site that requires an original idea, a lot of money and the employees' efforts 24h. Or at least that's the way it should be. Surely e-companies should hold their own when it comes to deep-linking or we'll end up not only looking at the same boring graphics, but also reading the same boring texts. Be original, for chrissakes!
This mainly applies to businesses, but also to private programmers: the only valid reason for designing a website is not that you're able to program. It's that you have got something to say!
It's a simple rule - please follow it. The net could have more sites like/. this way:)
But is Descent ready and enough open source for the Linux users? 3d movability is pretty neat, but the idea of running around not in a space maze not being able to head into outer space when it suits me... it just doesn't seem very open source, does it? Not like the real world, anyway.
Just a few years from now, a scenario like this will be unthinkable. Intel recently announced a new technology using fingerprints and tiny Smart Cards for user security with laptops. If terrorists are to make any use of a stolen computer, they'll have to steal the owner's digit as well.
I must say I don't really feel comfortable about all this new technology...
Apparently CyberPatrol & Mattel suffered great losses when the recipe for hacking Cyberpatrol was mirrored on the net. So great losses, in fact, they think they will never recover - hence:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. If it's broken beyond repair, kill the messenger.
Even if someone stole all the accessible information held by my toilet, fridge, and stove, what would they do with it? Of course I have a few bad eating habits (not to mention all the other business) but don't we all? Nowadays, people only take interest in a person in public space to the extent that he/she wants to attract attention. We're all anonymous to each other.
Except to the machines, that is. They'll know us better than any human being does, even our moms. So obviously they'll learn from all this information and in some weird way a network of home appliances will mutate into a human being or something bigger, better etc.. And maybe we'll be slaves strung up somewhere midways down the toilet drain looking for undigested pieces of corn from a computer's... take a break, please.
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Suppose they're going into space to blast a big asteroid to pieces and save us all? Why on (or off) earth do the Russians always get to have all the fun?
No, you see: It's really as simple as 60 years ago, in WW2: When the Germans heard the words:
they thought it meant which is in fact the result when you translate the words into German and back with Babelfish.This, however, hasn't brought me any closer to understanding what we're discussing here. But I do know that, once the Americans learned how to decrypt the Germans, the war was won. And this is why we'll never be taken over by the machines - we're smarter than them, and we speak real German :-p
Excuse me for being offtopic. It won't happen again. Promise.
Sorry.
I couldn't resist the temptation.
To be first-posting on something that's already been published before.
Have decency.
Could you please moderate me up...man...?
That's a pretty hefty way to put it, don't you think?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm getting the impression that Linux is another planet and Linuxians are an alien species invading our digital world.
Please remember me when you become the rulers of the World, oh strange Linux-people. ;-)
Anyway, if they're still serious about breaking Microsoft into pieces, they're gonna have to crack Bill Gates' little head open. Because it's all in there, isn't it?
By the way: The downloadable tech preview of Windows Media Player 7 isn't capable with the RealPlayer audio format. And that's when RealNetworks licensed Microsoft's format just a few weeks ago to include it in their forthcoming software! Maybe there is something to that Microsoft/Macrosoft mess-up after all.
Has it ever occurred to you how Netscape was rubbed in the dirt by Microsoft (of course it has) and how they (and the people cuurently working at the Mozilla project) are trying to gain the lost grounds? When topic = The Mozilla project, then the debate should be open for a few relevant questions. Problem is, the ideals behind Mozilla are so high that any posed question will inevidently sound like I'm brewing up a conspiracy theory. Anyway, here goes:
- Why is the Open Source phenomenon booming the way is? Could it have anything to do with the fact that the hours spent on designing it are relatively free of charge (of course it has)? Does this have anything at all to do with a general tendency towards glorifying anything Open Source? In other words, why is it a cool thing to participate in anything that's Open Source? And does this again have anything to do with the fact that the term 'Open Source' has been commercialized (you must agree it is, really - remember the Save Iridium project a few days ago). - ? Was Open Sourcing Mozilla the only way Netscape could stay alive? (think about how much publicity it has brought about).
I'm not being offensive, just trying to dig to the core of things. And of course the one question which dismisses all the above as a load of crap is this: What does it all matter as long as the users are in control?
Still, please think about it. I'm puzzled, as I'm not exactly a techie myself... does it make sense?
Sorry about the ill-tempered reply, but I think it had to be said.
I'm sorry if this is offtopic - I just can't help it, and it's pretty interesting, too.
Here in Denmark the newspaper Berlingske Tidende brought an april's fool joke in the form of a breaking-news story: The main point of the article was that, for the last two years the U.S. have been monitoring the television habits of the Danes (As you may be aware the European privacy legislation is much stricter than the American, and here we're always overly freightened by everything American, especially Echelon).
According to the article the Americans have been registering people who have been watching hardcore porn on TV excessively. The information gathered will now, the article says, be used to limit access to the States for those people. In other words, if you're a Dane watching too much pornography it's not likely you'll be eligible to be a tourist in America.
What does this tell us?
1: That, compared to Americans, Europeans have minority complexes and second thoughts about the technological future. This I believe is the reason why everything is only now taking off here.
2: That april's fool jokes can be bad for your TV habits.
3: That there's a reason why Babelfish doesn't support translation from Danish to English and vice versa.
No sorry, he just left. I'll check if anybody else can help you. Hey everybody, there's some freak on the phone! Pretty hysterical, claims he's an almighty something, wants someone to write a piece on heavenly junk and post it on /. - anybody know how to control this guy?
Also, I'm really gonna miss the two norwegians trying to cross the North Pole by foot, (not) communicating only to the outside world via...Iridium.
This mainly applies to businesses, but also to private programmers: the only valid reason for designing a website is not that you're able to program. It's that you have got something to say!
It's a simple rule - please follow it. The net could have more sites like /. this way :)
Are you saying that maybe someone ought to breastfeed the engineers?
But is Descent ready and enough open source for the Linux users? 3d movability is pretty neat, but the idea of running around not in a space maze not being able to head into outer space when it suits me... it just doesn't seem very open source, does it? Not like the real world, anyway.
Just a few years from now, a scenario like this will be unthinkable. Intel recently announced a new technology using fingerprints and tiny Smart Cards for user security with laptops. If terrorists are to make any use of a stolen computer, they'll have to steal the owner's digit as well.
I must say I don't really feel comfortable about all this new technology...
It seems that the two engineers Jansson and Skala, who originally hacked the program, were wasting their time (on an ideological scale, anyway.)
Since software censorship is so easy to work one's way around, a hardware solution is already in the works: the eSniff.
It simply stores all the company's traffic, whether internal og external for the CEO in a cache.
Here's a very informative and sensible take on this new technology.
www.e.magazine.dk
Apparently CyberPatrol & Mattel suffered great losses when the recipe for hacking Cyberpatrol was mirrored on the net. So great losses, in fact, they think they will never recover - hence:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
If it's broken beyond repair, kill the messenger.
www.e.magazine.dk
I seem to recall Konrad Hilbers (CEO AOL Europe) saying something like this at the ISP2000:
"The relationship between Europe and America is no longer a copy-and-paste one"
Meaning that apparently, we (the Europeans)'ve been copying America excessively.
So much for 2000 years of cultural history...
www.e.magazine.dk
Even if someone stole all the accessible information held by my toilet, fridge, and stove, what would they do with it? Of course I have a few bad eating habits (not to mention all the other business) but don't we all? Nowadays, people only take interest in a person in public space to the extent that he/she wants to attract attention. We're all anonymous to each other.
... take a break, please.
Except to the machines, that is. They'll know us better than any human being does, even our moms. So obviously they'll learn from all this information and in some weird way a network of home appliances will mutate into a human being or something bigger, better etc.. And maybe we'll be slaves strung up somewhere midways down the toilet drain looking for undigested pieces of corn from a computer's
www.e.magazine.dk