This 'new culture' they claim us 'geeks' are creating is just a way that soceity at large can classify what they don't understand. So they put us in a seperate flock, generalize us, and, depending on the person's expeirences with tech people, that person will either see 'geeks' as saviors of a failing old world, or mystics here to bring doom. When in reality, we mostly just want to be looked on as the people we really are, not some pawns in an e-commerce game.
1)Rip off music without buying the CDs? 2)Rip off software so programers can't make money? 3)Rip off games, so that more won't be put out? 4)Spam screens with porno ad pop-ups?
All of this steps on Copyright (and Copyleft) and prevents ppl from making the money they deserve. Don't get me wrong, I have mp3s, and own ROMs, but I go buy the 'real thing' if I like what I see/hear. And as far as porn, all for it, but, their are ppl who don't want to see it, and I don't want to deal with the pop ups.
Uh, what was so troll about that. Defcon isssss a bunch of script kiddies, I've been there. So before some moderator decides that my comments were un-true, and un-worthy of defcon, they should go too. All they do is walk around on the floor, pirate software, distribute exploit programs, and trade pr0n. What's so 313373 about that? (Btw, I know their are some good security experts @ defcon, but they are farrrr out-numbered by little rich kid pr0n trafficing script kiddies). And just because someone posted something inappropriate in reply to my comment shouldn't get me mod'ed down. If I really wanted to troll, I would have posted Anon. So why the hell did that get a troll flag?
It's not the DVD moguls source, it's open source, owned by those good norweigens who made it. There's no court order against it, at the moment, so it's legal.
IMHO, I think it is quite possible to distribute an operating system. I mean, Beowulf clusters are partially distributed (IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE FAQ, DON'T POST ABOUT BEOWULF). IT could be quite possbile to divide the utilities among numerous servers, then use a program to determine the need for various utilities, and allow those servers more bandwidth on the network, or even possibly copy data to larger servers, re-arranging programs most needed to the fastest servers. It might be worth it to further investigate the idea of a distributed OS.
Awww, how cute. Looks like some Moderator has a soft spot for napster. It is my opinion, honestly, that napster bites. They say "Yay, for sharing." , but refuse to open the source. Napster maintains control over ONE central server, and sells merchandise off of the website. This is the kind of thing that would happen if Micro$soft mated with the Gnutella devel branch. They bite.
I've decided to patent the concept of a three dimensional universe. If anyone wants to perceive their surroundings in three dimensions, I will be offering liscenses for just $250. Of course, older versions of 'reality' such as v2.1, which allows up to two dimensions of perception, will be availible for evaluation purposes here.
I geuss this means I have to stay in the office instead of going to play golf/go grocery shopping/take the hubcabs of the CEO's car/take a 3 hours lunch break. If they ever figure out that I just send all their personal mail from the send list to/dev/null, deny outgoing traffic to every site except hamsterdance, leave an overly technical note on my desk so they think I'm off on business, and then leave for the day (always by 10:32) I'll probably have to work for a living... A little to honest for me:)
Do you have any publically releasable figures on how much the SPL cost to build, and how much it cost to operate? If so, would you share those with us/.ers?
1)Find their IP 2)Track it back to their ISP(through IP allocations) 3)ask ISP for address for use in informing the user of legal charges 4)drive to their address, find the kid hunched over the pc (yeah, the nerdy 12 year old chuckling because he thinks he's so 313373) 5)Kick his ass. 6)Repeat as necessary.
They were of course working on that famous vaporware linux version of AOL and Compuserve 2000 they promised everyone 2 years ago. Case stated "No, really, we love Linux. We aren't at all threatened by the concept of a group of people smart enough to use a real ISP. Really."
Yes, plasma does result from charging certain noble gases with energy. Why does this get everyone all excited. The problem is, it's very difficult to control, and to get it to provide a relatively solid barrier could require as many as 10,000 watts of energy, according to most research I read. Sorry to disappoint you'll but you'll have to wait for those personal plasma shields;)
this is a fixed version of my horribly screwed up last post, sorry for that-- ============================================== to K5- God bless, and don't cave in. I say, take down anon, block as many abusive subnets as you can find, and strip the box of as many services as you can other than those crucially needed. We really hope you make it through. to the script kiddies who think they are the evil hax0r shit- you're not. I hope k5 posts your IPs and your e-mails if they can find them. Then I might just show you what happens when I take a very loose interpretation of the golden rule. to slashdot- uuh, yall are having big server problems from where I'm sitting...it may just be my crappy ISP, but it is normally no where as bad. Maybe you are suffering a little DoS yourselves. Anyway, keep up your support of kuro, they need it.
to K5- God bless, and don't cave in. I say, take down anon, block as many abusive subnets as you can find, and strip the box of as many services as you can other than those crucially needed. We really hope you make it through. to the script kiddies who think they are the evil hax0r shit- you're not. I hope k5 posts your IPs and your e-mails if they can find them. Then I might just show you what happens when I take a very loose interpretation of the golden rule. to slashdot- uuh, yall are having big server problems from where I'm sitting...it may just be my crappy ISP, but it is normally no where as bad. Maybe you are suffering a little DoS yourselves. Anyway, keep up your support of kuro, they need it.
Ahh, but unfortunately, a whole new group of open source zealots are posting. I remember when Linux zealots were on everyone's nerves. Now there is BSD. <br><i> "BSD is a better liscense. Sooo wah!"<br> "Look at this nifty 350mb/ps throughput we benched on freeBSD! No, I promise, we didn't doctor it"<br> <br></i> I have nothing against FreeBSD, but Linux is more developed/stable system. And eventually, people will just use whatever system they feel comfortable with. If BSDers and Linux users stopped fighting we could convert more ppl to the Open Source movement. And isn't that what's really important?
This seems like a problem, huh? They don't follow 'no bots' rules, the use up resources, they won't stop, act like jerks about it, and there's no law against it.
But actually there is. Try to sue them for unauthorized use of your resources, in a similar manner as you would for any other kind of denial of service attack. Hey, ebay got it's crawlers removed, so maybe it could be worth a try.
If this thing is a carnivore, we can cross our fingers that it will extend it's hunting grounds to britain, eat some bad cattle, catch mad cow, and die.
The truth is, you can't modify the FBI's behavior because our checks and balances aren't...well... balanced. The president owns the congress, the supreme court and his best buds are the FBI. In this instnace our best hope is to wait for George Washington rises from the dead, strangles our goevernment down to the last man, then returns to the afterlife where he enjoys his comfortable weed growing, red coat shoting eternity.
Microsoft held an auction over the weekend for the computer on which the first Windows was designed. It sold for $.50, was taken into the parking lot, and burned. Bill Gates was seen, later that day, crying over the loss of his 'baby' and screaming 'First my company, then my dearest!'.
Looks like someone is proud of their ability to add negatives (Program+G4=-Program). G4s might be resonable fast if run without that slothy OS layer. But for most purposes, they run about as fast as a p3. Also, real supercomputers have faster memory paging, and MUCH more bus bandwidth, which in the long term becomes very important for this kind of computation. p.s.-- please excuse spelling/grammar, i'm operating on like 3 hours of sleep)
It becomes proprietary in the sense that if it is developed in certain nations with export laws against heavy encryption, it becomes, in essence, proprietary to a nation, if not an organization. However, I do admit that this bullet has been dodged before, for example ssh, where they handled the development elsewhere, and imported it to the states, as opposed to the other way around. Some say this was to avoid the laws, some say that the first system volunteered for the project just happened to be in europe (finland is it?).
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Sleep.
I already bought mine. It's in the backyard, next to my fab, space launch facility, and my decomissioned Russian submarine.
This 'new culture' they claim us 'geeks' are creating is just a way that soceity at large can classify what they don't understand. So they put us in a seperate flock, generalize us, and, depending on the person's expeirences with tech people, that person will either see 'geeks' as saviors of a failing old world, or mystics here to bring doom. When in reality, we mostly just want to be looked on as the people we really are, not some pawns in an e-commerce game.
1)Rip off music without buying the CDs? 2)Rip off software so programers can't make money? 3)Rip off games, so that more won't be put out? 4)Spam screens with porno ad pop-ups?
All of this steps on Copyright (and Copyleft) and prevents ppl from making the money they deserve.
Don't get me wrong, I have mp3s, and own ROMs, but I go buy the 'real thing' if I like what I see/hear. And as far as porn, all for it, but, their are ppl who don't want to see it, and I don't want to deal with the pop ups.
Thanks all. Didn't know that the Mac was supported that well. I'll have to try some of that out.
'Valar' is what J.R.R. Tolkien called the gods in his books. So fire and brimstone unto you. Who the hell names themselves "Anonymous Coward"?
(Yes, I know. Don't even bother.)
Uh, what was so troll about that. Defcon isssss a bunch of script kiddies, I've been there. So before some moderator decides that my comments were un-true, and un-worthy of defcon, they should go too. All they do is walk around on the floor, pirate software, distribute exploit programs, and trade pr0n. What's so 313373 about that? (Btw, I know their are some good security experts @ defcon, but they are farrrr out-numbered by little rich kid pr0n trafficing script kiddies). And just because someone posted something inappropriate in reply to my comment shouldn't get me mod'ed down. If I really wanted to troll, I would have posted Anon. So why the hell did that get a troll flag?
It's not the DVD moguls source, it's open source, owned by those good norweigens who made it. There's no court order against it, at the moment, so it's legal.
IMHO, I think it is quite possible to distribute an operating system. I mean, Beowulf clusters are partially distributed (IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE FAQ, DON'T POST ABOUT BEOWULF). IT could be quite possbile to divide the utilities among numerous servers, then use a program to determine the need for various utilities, and allow those servers more bandwidth on the network, or even possibly copy data to larger servers, re-arranging programs most needed to the fastest servers. It might be worth it to further investigate the idea of a distributed OS.
Awww, how cute. Looks like some Moderator has a soft spot for napster. It is my opinion, honestly, that napster bites. They say "Yay, for sharing." , but refuse to open the source. Napster maintains control over ONE central server, and sells merchandise off of the website. This is the kind of thing that would happen if Micro$soft mated with the Gnutella devel branch. They bite.
Who the hell names a site 'Suck'?
I've decided to patent the concept of a three dimensional universe. If anyone wants to perceive their surroundings in three dimensions, I will be offering liscenses for just $250. Of course, older versions of 'reality' such as v2.1, which allows up to two dimensions of perception, will be availible for evaluation purposes here.
I geuss this means I have to stay in the office instead of going to play golf/go grocery shopping/take the hubcabs of the CEO's car/take a 3 hours lunch break. If they ever figure out that I just send all their personal mail from the send list to /dev/null, deny outgoing traffic to every site except hamsterdance, leave an overly technical note on my desk so they think I'm off on business, and then leave for the day (always by 10:32) I'll probably have to work for a living... A little to honest for me :)
Do you have any publically releasable figures on how much the SPL cost to build, and how much it cost to operate? If so, would you share those with us /.ers?
1)Find their IP 2)Track it back to their ISP(through IP allocations) 3)ask ISP for address for use in informing the user of legal charges 4)drive to their address, find the kid hunched over the pc (yeah, the nerdy 12 year old chuckling because he thinks he's so 313373) 5)Kick his ass. 6)Repeat as necessary.
They were of course working on that famous vaporware linux version of AOL and Compuserve 2000 they promised everyone 2 years ago. Case stated "No, really, we love Linux. We aren't at all threatened by the concept of a group of people smart enough to use a real ISP. Really."
To this i say, IRC.
Yes, plasma does result from charging certain noble gases with energy. Why does this get everyone all excited. The problem is, it's very difficult to control, and to get it to provide a relatively solid barrier could require as many as 10,000 watts of energy, according to most research I read. Sorry to disappoint you'll but you'll have to wait for those personal plasma shields ;)
this is a fixed version of my horribly screwed up last post, sorry for that--
==============================================
to K5- God bless, and don't cave in. I say, take down anon, block as many abusive subnets as you can find, and strip the box of as many services as you can other than those crucially needed. We really hope you make it through.
to the script kiddies who think they are the evil hax0r shit- you're not. I hope k5 posts your IPs and your e-mails if they can find them. Then I might just show you what happens when I take a very loose interpretation of the golden rule.
to slashdot- uuh, yall are having big server problems from where I'm sitting...it may just be my crappy ISP, but it is normally no where as bad. Maybe you are suffering a little DoS yourselves. Anyway, keep up your support of kuro, they need it.
to K5- God bless, and don't cave in. I say, take down anon, block as many abusive subnets as you can find, and strip the box of as many services as you can other than those crucially needed. We really hope you make it through. to the script kiddies who think they are the evil hax0r shit- you're not. I hope k5 posts your IPs and your e-mails if they can find them. Then I might just show you what happens when I take a very loose interpretation of the golden rule. to slashdot- uuh, yall are having big server problems from where I'm sitting...it may just be my crappy ISP, but it is normally no where as bad. Maybe you are suffering a little DoS yourselves. Anyway, keep up your support of kuro, they need it.
Ahh, but unfortunately, a whole new group of open source zealots are posting. I remember when Linux zealots were on everyone's nerves. Now there is BSD.
<br><i>
"BSD is a better liscense. Sooo wah!"<br>
"Look at this nifty 350mb/ps throughput we benched on freeBSD! No, I promise, we didn't doctor it"<br>
<br></i>
I have nothing against FreeBSD, but Linux is more developed/stable system. And eventually, people will just use whatever system they feel comfortable with. If BSDers and Linux users stopped fighting we could convert more ppl to the Open Source movement. And isn't that what's really important?
This seems like a problem, huh? They don't follow 'no bots' rules, the use up resources, they won't stop, act like jerks about it, and there's no law against it.
But actually there is. Try to sue them for unauthorized use of your resources, in a similar manner as you would for any other kind of denial of service attack. Hey, ebay got it's crawlers removed, so maybe it could be worth a try.
If this thing is a carnivore, we can cross our fingers that it will extend it's hunting grounds to britain, eat some bad cattle, catch mad cow, and die.
...well... balanced. The president owns the congress, the supreme court and his best buds are the FBI. In this instnace our best hope is to wait for George Washington rises from the dead, strangles our goevernment down to the last man, then returns to the afterlife where he enjoys his comfortable weed growing, red coat shoting eternity.
The truth is, you can't modify the FBI's behavior because our checks and balances aren't
Microsoft held an auction over the weekend for the computer on which the first Windows was designed. It sold for $.50, was taken into the parking lot, and burned. Bill Gates was seen, later that day, crying over the loss of his 'baby' and screaming 'First my company, then my dearest!'.
Looks like someone is proud of their ability to add negatives (Program+G4=-Program). G4s might be resonable fast if run without that slothy OS layer. But for most purposes, they run about as fast as a p3. Also, real supercomputers have faster memory paging, and MUCH more bus bandwidth, which in the long term becomes very important for this kind of computation. p.s.-- please excuse spelling/grammar, i'm operating on like 3 hours of sleep)
It becomes proprietary in the sense that if it is developed in certain nations with export laws against heavy encryption, it becomes, in essence, proprietary to a nation, if not an organization. However, I do admit that this bullet has been dodged before, for example ssh, where they handled the development elsewhere, and imported it to the states, as opposed to the other way around. Some say this was to avoid the laws, some say that the first system volunteered for the project just happened to be in europe (finland is it?).