If you really think about it, the math behind such an event may not work out....My guess is, there simply aren't enough hosts on the net that are simultaneously A) succeptible to infection B) sitting on static IPs, and C) unmonitored by human eyes. All three conditions must exist in order for the worm to propogate -- If any one of those factors is absent, that particular thread of the superworm is halted. It makes the scenario described in this article practically impossible. Sure, a superworm may exist, but it would be so slow-moving and predictable that it would be no more a threat than any other form of DoS attack.
If you really want something abstract to think about, consider this: How is this "superworm" different than, say, a non-existant website mentioned on a nationwide TV broadcast? Instead of malicious code generating the resulting network congestion, its humans -- The net result is the same -- The effect will taper off as T increases. Nothing to really worry about, in other words.
Yeah, I know. I'm sure someones gonna come back and read this 10 years from now and want to slap me silly with a 10 lbs. trout, for my lack of forethought.. But seriously, I think these sort of stories are more along the lines of interesting fiction than they are real-world possibilities.
Considering how much _less_ goes into a tablet versus a laptop, it makes you wonder why the concept has taken so long to catch on as it has... I love mine, for example. Got a nice little Ricoh G1200-S tablet for $100 on ebay. Runs 98, Linux, fun to hack with...makes a great wardriving dash-mount console.. lots fun stuff.
The only problem with tablets is, you walk around with a constant fear of scratching the display. There needs to be some sort of form-factor for tablet casings...some sort of disposable laminant to encase your tablet in.
Wonderful, isn't it. Just when we thought the dot-com shakeup is over with, along comes some photo-documentation that shows otherwise. Guys and gals with degrees in Advanced Burgerflipping given the task of setting up network infrastructure.
I predict this will be the fastest computer that will ever be made in 1996!! Awesome!
Canada's first objective is to get a clue and stop lagging 5-6 years behind America in everything....and for that, they're probably going to need a supercomputer.
This paper is about 3 microns away from justifying plagarism and copyright theft under the guise of postmodernism. I love it.:)
Here's what I came away with in this paper; I'll annotate the good parts with a +, and the bad parts with a -.
This paper proposes that there really isnt any point to enforcing a rigid set of rules that forces each of us to reinvent the wheel (-) whenever we want to do something constructive (+) . However, that ideas a few caveats, namely that by allowing (or encouraging) people to simply 'glom off' the work of others, we deprive them of the experience and perspective that can only BE gained by reinventing the wheel (-)... Here's a cute example. About 7 years ago, I took a class in x86 assembly. Our instructor was pretty hardcore -- Was around even before punch-cards. The manner in which he taught the class was to introduce us to the most minimal set of tools possible, and force us to combine these tools in a way which allowed us to do more things (+) --For example, the MUL instruction in x86 (simple multiply) wasn't revealed to us until Week 4 -- Before then, we had to write our own routine to perform multiplication. To me, this is how it should be. In order to appreciate the car, at SOME point you must first reinvent the wheel and learn what thats like.
This paper puts forth the notion that its simply embracing the evolution of our science to take pre-existing forms, and adapt them for our own uses. In a nutshell, the whole concept of open source (+) . That having vast libraries of code to draw from, and then NOT doing so, is a terrible misuse of resources. After all, if we were to build an automobile, we wouldn't start off by cracking open a book on Chemistry to learn about electron exchange between atoms. We don't crack open a book on Newtonian physics, either, to learn why F=Ma. Chemistry and Newtonian physics can be thought of as the "legacy code" of manufacturing and construction, similar to all the standard tenets of programming. Why write new code when theres something 99% similar to it out there already, that you can simply adopt, modify, and re-release? (+)..We incorporate the ideas and functionality they provide into our own work, simply because its convenient to do so. (+) It makes just sense. Anything less would be a waste of time. (-)
I feel better about writing code now, after reading this paper. I had always felt a wee bit guilty about pilfering around in other people's code for a solution to a particular task, feeling that somehow I sucked that much more since I couldn't come up with my own solution, from scratch. This paper allowed me to realize that chances are, the person who I'm "cheating off of" probably did the same thing to someone else, to prepare his own.:) What before I used to refer to as "cheating", is now simply a manefestation of right and proper progress. I take and use, so that others may take and use from me. (+) It feels better to code without guilt. (?)
Cheers,
Potential Cannibalism Concerns...
on
Pigs with Human Genes
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· Score: 3, Interesting
So.. Anyone care to wager how long it takes for a clerical error to allow one of these pigs to interbreed with a normal one, and produce offspring that ends up in your hotdog?
There are only 3 types of people who will have this procedure; People willing to jeopardize their health, people with alot of money, and people with no brains to start with. In other words, people from California... And as everyone knows, people in California are 50% silicon already. Besides, what use is it going to be to have Anna Nicole Smith on a chip? We already have that. Its called the Intel 4004---Slow, dumb, bloated, and easy to use.
I'm either smart, or bitter. Its hard to be one without the other.
This is a good editorial. Its always good to see people thinking differently about how to do the things we all do on a daily basis.
However..
The notion of using a text-based backdrop to GUI applications certainly isn't a new idea, and its not without merit -- The only problem is, what the editorial discusses can be replicated in X, and represents a set of personal preferences, not something that would be inherently better than what you or I would make for ourselves.
For example, the layout of my own GUI has been relatively unchanged in the past 10 years, since thats how I like things. A large work area, bordered by a few shells down below, and a single line of information at the top that reflects system conditions. Take AmigaDOS 3.1's desktop, for example. It tells me everything I need to know at any given time using a single slat of text that not only doubles but *triples* as an information display, a File/Edit/View/Options bar, and a grab point for moving the screen up and down to expose screens beneath. Best of all, it conveys the same information a Dock would, but doesn't waste real-estate like a Dock would.
The problem with a Dock is that it it offers very little *useful* information for the real estate it encompasses. It also offers a wealth of information that isn't particularly useful to anyone. Most screenshots of desktops with Docks confirm this -- A comparably large piece of real estate is taken away from other applications for the purposes of eye candy. Big mistake.
Not to dismiss this guy's editorial, however, but he fails to distinguish how his method is any better or any different than simply running an xterm in the root window and simply utilizing pre-existing keyboard shortcuts for his applications.. (*shrug*)
Does it strike anyone as being just a tad bit ironic that the former CEO of Red Hat has started a new company, who's webpage can't be viewed correctly in anything but a Microsoft browser?
Step 1) Obtain a 55 gal. drum, with a small hole at the top.
Step 2) Provide a large heat source.
Step 3) Place 55 gal. drum on heat source.
Step 4) Pour enough water into the drum so that it just covers the bottom, and creates steam.
Step 5) Allow the water to boil inside the drum. This will cause the vapor pressure inside the drum to change, and the atmospheric pressure inside the drum to drop dramatically.
Step 6) Spray 55 gallon drum with (preferably cold) water...for about 2-3 seconds.
Step 7) *WHAM*... 55 gal. drum will more or less implode on itself instantaneously, crushed by the weight of the atmosphere. It will look like a truck hit it at 100 MPH. I've seen it before, its insane.
If what you say is true, we should llet them build their own economy, instead of becoming parasitic to ours.
With all the money leaving this country, its no wonder the entire IT industry is tanking. I cant help but feel that most of the major players in the industry are farming out their labor under the guise of "American employees arent as loyal", which is horseshit. Its kinda hard to be loyal to a company thats willing to replace you with a six pack of hindus the instant somebody upstairs decides you're not worth the price to keep. Its self-perpetuating. The more companies outsource to India, the less loyalty employees have, the more companies feel they're justified in outsourcing to India. Absolute and total horseshit.
I'll tell you this much... The dot-com shakeout is over with. All the fruitcakes with pierced eyebrows are back working at Starbucks where they belong. The industry is creating its own problems by continuing this stupid-ass outsourcing trend. Sure, productivity increases, but quality suffers enormously. Besides, what the hell good is it to outsource when you can't hold the people on the other side of the planet accountable for their mistakes, and ontop of it, you're plunging a knife into the vast majority of workers employed at your company?
Whatever pre-occupies India into paying attention to their own problems versus bringing their problems over here to America is a good thing. Yeah, I know, it sounds terrible, and massively politically incorrect. But the fact is, there are more people in India taking away American jobs than there are Americans taking away Indian jobs. That means our economy suffers as a result, since money is hemmoraghing out of the country in buckets.
Most of us with skills are getting fairly tired of being replaced by a sixpack of Hindus at every turn. Before you rail on me for being "racist", which of course, some of you will..... Feel free to give me one example where 6 Indian IT workers were replaced with one outsourced American IT worker. It aint gonna happen.
(Insert the obligatory "one of my best friends is from India" remark here, which is true.)
Psst....Big Blue.. Here's a hint. In order to run a company, you need to hire people at some point. Employees make stuff the company can sell for money. That makes the stock price go back up. Say it with me, now... Employees, good. Layoffs, bad!
Slashdot Mirror
Just what I need. A mouse with a grotesquely pumpkin-shaped head with dinner plate eyes, and a tentacle stuffed in the mouse hole.
Cheers,
If you really think about it, the math behind such an event may not work out....My guess is, there simply aren't enough hosts on the net that are simultaneously A) succeptible to infection B) sitting on static IPs, and C) unmonitored by human eyes. All three conditions must exist in order for the worm to propogate -- If any one of those factors is absent, that particular thread of the superworm is halted. It makes the scenario described in this article practically impossible. Sure, a superworm may exist, but it would be so slow-moving and predictable that it would be no more a threat than any other form of DoS attack.
If you really want something abstract to think about, consider this: How is this "superworm" different than, say, a non-existant website mentioned on a nationwide TV broadcast? Instead of malicious code generating the resulting network congestion, its humans -- The net result is the same -- The effect will taper off as T increases. Nothing to really worry about, in other words.
Yeah, I know. I'm sure someones gonna come back and read this 10 years from now and want to slap me silly with a 10 lbs. trout, for my lack of forethought.. But seriously, I think these sort of stories are more along the lines of interesting fiction than they are real-world possibilities.
Cheers,
Considering how much _less_ goes into a tablet versus a laptop, it makes you wonder why the concept has taken so long to catch on as it has... I love mine, for example. Got a nice little Ricoh G1200-S tablet for $100 on ebay. Runs 98, Linux, fun to hack with...makes a great wardriving dash-mount console.. lots fun stuff.
The only problem with tablets is, you walk around with a constant fear of scratching the display. There needs to be some sort of form-factor for tablet casings...some sort of disposable laminant to encase your tablet in.
Cheers,
Sounds like the name of a sports drink targeted at uh....interior decorators.
Shouldn't it be "squelch" ?
Cheers,
How is this better than a $99 Palm m105?
Come on... PayPal isn't corrupt! Theres no such thing as a corrupt dot com company. They're all fine, upstanding companies with untarnished reputations.
Take your PayPal troll somewhere else, buddy!
Wonderful, isn't it. Just when we thought the dot-com shakeup is over with, along comes some photo-documentation that shows otherwise. Guys and gals with degrees in Advanced Burgerflipping given the task of setting up network infrastructure.
Greeeaaat.
Wow, lossless data encryption!! I'm impressed!
Rumor has it they're going to call it "ROT13".
Sheesh...Is it really that hard to author a post that doesn't insult the intelligence of 80% of your readers?
Cheers,
I predict this will be the fastest computer that will ever be made in 1996!! Awesome!
Canada's first objective is to get a clue and stop lagging 5-6 years behind America in everything....and for that, they're probably going to need a supercomputer.
Cheers,
"Personally, I'm waiting for the cubist computer science movement..."
You missed it. The "BASIC PROGRAMMING' cartridge for the Atari 2600.
Cheers,
This paper is about 3 microns away from justifying plagarism and copyright theft under the guise of postmodernism. I love it.
Here's what I came away with in this paper; I'll annotate the good parts with a +, and the bad parts with a -.
This paper proposes that there really isnt any point to enforcing a rigid set of rules that forces each of us to reinvent the wheel (-) whenever we want to do something constructive (+) . However, that ideas a few caveats, namely that by allowing (or encouraging) people to simply 'glom off' the work of others, we deprive them of the experience and perspective that can only BE gained by reinventing the wheel (-)... Here's a cute example. About 7 years ago, I took a class in x86 assembly. Our instructor was pretty hardcore -- Was around even before punch-cards. The manner in which he taught the class was to introduce us to the most minimal set of tools possible, and force us to combine these tools in a way which allowed us to do more things (+) --For example, the MUL instruction in x86 (simple multiply) wasn't revealed to us until Week 4 -- Before then, we had to write our own routine to perform multiplication. To me, this is how it should be. In order to appreciate the car, at SOME point you must first reinvent the wheel and learn what thats like.
This paper puts forth the notion that its simply embracing the evolution of our science to take pre-existing forms, and adapt them for our own uses. In a nutshell, the whole concept of open source (+) . That having vast libraries of code to draw from, and then NOT doing so, is a terrible misuse of resources. After all, if we were to build an automobile, we wouldn't start off by cracking open a book on Chemistry to learn about electron exchange between atoms. We don't crack open a book on Newtonian physics, either, to learn why F=Ma. Chemistry and Newtonian physics can be thought of as the "legacy code" of manufacturing and construction, similar to all the standard tenets of programming. Why write new code when theres something 99% similar to it out there already, that you can simply adopt, modify, and re-release? (+)
I feel better about writing code now, after reading this paper. I had always felt a wee bit guilty about pilfering around in other people's code for a solution to a particular task, feeling that somehow I sucked that much more since I couldn't come up with my own solution, from scratch. This paper allowed me to realize that chances are, the person who I'm "cheating off of" probably did the same thing to someone else, to prepare his own.
Cheers,
So.. Anyone care to wager how long it takes for a clerical error to allow one of these pigs to interbreed with a normal one, and produce offspring that ends up in your hotdog?
Oink!
Cheers,
Micro.
"Handheld Device".
Palm.
Soft.
Symbian.
Why don't we all just cut to the chase and call them what they are?
Expensive vibrators.
There are only 3 types of people who will have this procedure; People willing to jeopardize their health, people with alot of money, and people with no brains to start with. In other words, people from California... And as everyone knows, people in California are 50% silicon already. Besides, what use is it going to be to have Anna Nicole Smith on a chip? We already have that. Its called the Intel 4004---Slow, dumb, bloated, and easy to use.
I'm either smart, or bitter. Its hard to be one without the other.
This is a good editorial. Its always good to see people thinking differently about how to do the things we all do on a daily basis.
However..
The notion of using a text-based backdrop to GUI applications certainly isn't a new idea, and its not without merit -- The only problem is, what the editorial discusses can be replicated in X, and represents a set of personal preferences, not something that would be inherently better than what you or I would make for ourselves.
For example, the layout of my own GUI has been relatively unchanged in the past 10 years, since thats how I like things. A large work area, bordered by a few shells down below, and a single line of information at the top that reflects system conditions. Take AmigaDOS 3.1's desktop, for example. It tells me everything I need to know at any given time using a single slat of text that not only doubles but *triples* as an information display, a File/Edit/View/Options bar, and a grab point for moving the screen up and down to expose screens beneath. Best of all, it conveys the same information a Dock would, but doesn't waste real-estate like a Dock would.
The problem with a Dock is that it it offers very little *useful* information for the real estate it encompasses. It also offers a wealth of information that isn't particularly useful to anyone. Most screenshots of desktops with Docks confirm this -- A comparably large piece of real estate is taken away from other applications for the purposes of eye candy. Big mistake.
Not to dismiss this guy's editorial, however, but he fails to distinguish how his method is any better or any different than simply running an xterm in the root window and simply utilizing pre-existing keyboard shortcuts for his applications.. (*shrug*)
Cheers
What, AOL go under?
*cough*QuantumLink*cough*
Wouldn't be the first time, thats all I'm saying.
Cheers,
http://www.brainyblonde.com?
Error 404: File Not Found
Cheers,
Does it strike anyone as being just a tad bit ironic that the former CEO of Red Hat has started a new company, who's webpage can't be viewed correctly in anything but a Microsoft browser?
Cheers,
Wow, with great technology like this, maybe someday they can make a webpage that doesn't look like cat shit in Netscape.
Something tells me Bob Young's been sniffin' glue at the Segway factory.
Cheers,
Step 1) Obtain a 55 gal. drum, with a small hole at the top.
... 55 gal. drum will more or less implode on itself instantaneously, crushed by the weight of the atmosphere. It will look like a truck hit it at 100 MPH. I've seen it before, its insane.
Step 2) Provide a large heat source.
Step 3) Place 55 gal. drum on heat source.
Step 4) Pour enough water into the drum so that it just covers the bottom, and creates steam.
Step 5) Allow the water to boil inside the drum. This will cause the vapor pressure inside the drum to change, and the atmospheric pressure inside the drum to drop dramatically.
Step 6) Spray 55 gallon drum with (preferably cold) water...for about 2-3 seconds.
Step 7) *WHAM*
Here, have 60 more ideas:
Becker demos
If what you say is true, we should llet them build their own economy, instead of becoming parasitic to ours.
With all the money leaving this country, its no wonder the entire IT industry is tanking. I cant help but feel that most of the major players in the industry are farming out their labor under the guise of "American employees arent as loyal", which is horseshit. Its kinda hard to be loyal to a company thats willing to replace you with a six pack of hindus the instant somebody upstairs decides you're not worth the price to keep. Its self-perpetuating. The more companies outsource to India, the less loyalty employees have, the more companies feel they're justified in outsourcing to India. Absolute and total horseshit.
I'll tell you this much... The dot-com shakeout is over with. All the fruitcakes with pierced eyebrows are back working at Starbucks where they belong. The industry is creating its own problems by continuing this stupid-ass outsourcing trend. Sure, productivity increases, but quality suffers enormously. Besides, what the hell good is it to outsource when you can't hold the people on the other side of the planet accountable for their mistakes, and ontop of it, you're plunging a knife into the vast majority of workers employed at your company?
Absolutely stupid!
Cheers,
Whatever pre-occupies India into paying attention to their own problems versus bringing their problems over here to America is a good thing. Yeah, I know, it sounds terrible, and massively politically incorrect. But the fact is, there are more people in India taking away American jobs than there are Americans taking away Indian jobs. That means our economy suffers as a result, since money is hemmoraghing out of the country in buckets.
Most of us with skills are getting fairly tired of being replaced by a sixpack of Hindus at every turn. Before you rail on me for being "racist", which of course, some of you will..... Feel free to give me one example where 6 Indian IT workers were replaced with one outsourced American IT worker. It aint gonna happen.
(Insert the obligatory "one of my best friends is from India" remark here, which is true.)
Cheers,
A: IBM's Stock Price.
Psst....Big Blue.. Here's a hint. In order to run a company, you need to hire people at some point. Employees make stuff the company can sell for money. That makes the stock price go back up. Say it with me, now... Employees, good. Layoffs, bad!
Cheers,
No SQL, No PHP, No CGI?
Written in 100% self-regulating Bash script:
MicroBlogger 1.7
Cheers,
Bowie
Debian? People still use that?
(BRRRSshehahahahaaa.. Sorry, I couldn't resist!)