Honestly, get a clue. No one needs to beat on the cracked boxes anymore, someone needs to fix them. The same goes for the cracker's IP, the more we do to him, the more we sink to his level. Honestly, that's the Feds' job : P
I can only come to one conclusion from your history of Slashdot posts: you, sir, are a complete asshole. All you can do is post flamebait on/., you can never find anything better to contribute, and THAT makes you no better than the "Richard Stallman is a goatfucker!" trolls.
And another thing: If you are so concerned about helping the poor in Third World countries, (and you obviously don't live in one, you arrogant asshole, or you wouldn't be posting this shit here), you wouldn't be sitting in front of the glow of your monitor all day typing up this elaborate flamebait to post on/., you would be out in the fields, providing vaccinations to migrant worker's children, or building a house for a poor family, or SOMETHING. Get a life.
I don't really see why they are so set on believing that any intelligent life that may exist outside of the solar system would rely on radio transmission to communicate. After all, there are probably all sorts of ways to communicate over distances that we just aren't advanced enough to know about, let alone implement.
Also, why would they be naive enough to think that any alien race that was stupid to broadcast news of its existence would still be worth contacting when we invented the means to? Do they really think that all alien life is non-destructive?
Oh wait... we've been polluting the airwaves for almost a century and actively launching probes like Voyager to initiate contact...
No, actually, the most useful project that I have seen come out of either of them is distributed.net's Optimal Golomb Rulers Project. With the results from this project, someone could actually do something practical, like figure out the optimal spacing for radio transmitters, I believe.
If any of you have ever heard the Descendents before, you will know that "caffiene fueled punk rock" is a very apt description.
I recommend finding the song "Coffee Mug" on Napst^H^H^H^H^H at your local music store. Look on the album "Everything Sucks". I'm sure most of you will relate to it (the song) in some way.
Now that there are some seriously expensive and powerful 3D graphics programs for Linux, could there be a possibility of pirated software like this program springing up on IRC?
An interesting concept considering that the only warez that I ever hear about are either for the Mac or Windows.
Satellite phones? Those were expensive as hell, last time I checked. And all the satellite ISPs I have heard of only transmit downstream data through the satellite, the upstream goes through the phone lines.
ahem... USE PGP! Jeez, if you don't want the governments of rouge nations spying on you and whatnot, using it with e-mail is a sufficient medium for communication. Legality and arms trafficking violations be damned! If you aren't allowed to download strong encryption from the U.S. according to U.S. law, but you fear persecution from your government for what you say, what would you do?
I guess I didn't make my point clear. What I meant was: it is harder to root several machines than it is to root just one machine. If something pretty exploitable like BIND or sendmail is running on the same machine as your firewall, then your firewall gets taken down at the same time that BIND or sendmail gets exploited, so instead of having a problem with one service, not only is your security gone, but so are two or three other services.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Simple logic.
I don't know about professional graphics programs, but high-end games take up a lot of system resources. Games like Quake III, for instance. It has come to the point, actually, where even the fastest processors can't keep up with requests from the graphics card. You must remember that for us gamers, a few frames per second matter a whole hell of a lot (that, and low network latency:-).
Of course, I have to speculate that the inherent crappiness of the I/O on x86 is gonna catch up with us sometime on the graphics front.
So I can have dual 550's running for under $300. I simply can't fathom what would programs would require more processing power than that!
Yes, except that just about every game is NOT multi-threaded (with the notable exception of Quake III Arena), and therefore can't take advantage of more than one processor. And don't even get me started on trying SMP with Windows 98. Also, it would cost you more than $300 for a dual 550 setup, because SMP motherboards cost much more than single processor motherboards.
Just remember, 2 * 550Mhz processors != 1.1Ghz of processing power for most games and other common applications. Although many people on eBay would like to tell you different.
I use programs like Napster and Gnutella heavily to aquire Mp3s of bands that I either like (as in I own some of their other work) or that I have heard good things about. This has acutally led me to buy more albums overall, despite me having a burner. Why? Because I like bands with intense levels of bass guitar, such as Rancid and NoMeansNo. With Mp3s (IMHO), you just can't even approach the quality of CD music, even on high-bitrate Mp3s, but you get an idea of how good the song is. There is a world of difference between listening to "Roots Radicals" on CD (awesome) as opposed to Mp3 (slightly tinny).
That, and I like the cover art, and I like supporting good bands.
Oh, great. Now, instead of having a standard VGA port with which to connect a monitor, you are now FORCED to shell out big $$$ for one of Apple's overpriced monitors. This is definitely NOT a good example of "thinking different".
Also, is this thing expandable, like the G4 towers, or is it a one-size-fits-all kind of concept, like the iMac, where not even the video card is upgradable?
From what I've heard, it should be pretty cheap, and probably pretty hackable too, just because of the PC hardware.
Pretty hackable? Remember, we are talking about Microsoft here. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Well, at least the first two.
Also, you bring up an interesting possibility for the distribution of games that will be made on the X-Box. I read somewhere that with all of Microsoft's holdings in and aquisitions of broadband providers, that they plan to develop centrally managed applications in the future, i.e. running Office on a central server somewhere, and having everyone use their computers as terminals. A pretty good stratagy for preventing piracy. Also a pretty good stratagy for absolute control over their own applications.
I mean, really. I heard on the news back around the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, they sued some Greek guy over the name of his restaurant, because he had the word "Olympic" in there somewhere. They remind me a lot of some large corporations, ahem, BELLSOUTH, who search out domain names that are derogotory towards them and then try to intimidate the owners into selling them the domain.
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Honestly, get a clue. No one needs to beat on the cracked boxes anymore, someone needs to fix them. The same goes for the cracker's IP, the more we do to him, the more we sink to his level. Honestly, that's the Feds' job : P
I can only come to one conclusion from your history of Slashdot posts: you, sir, are a complete asshole. All you can do is post flamebait on /., you can never find anything better to contribute, and THAT makes you no better than the "Richard Stallman is a goatfucker!" trolls.
And another thing: If you are so concerned about helping the poor in Third World countries, (and you obviously don't live in one, you arrogant asshole, or you wouldn't be posting this shit here), you wouldn't be sitting in front of the glow of your monitor all day typing up this elaborate flamebait to post on /., you would be out in the fields, providing vaccinations to migrant worker's children, or building a house for a poor family, or SOMETHING. Get a life.
I don't really see why they are so set on believing that any intelligent life that may exist outside of the solar system would rely on radio transmission to communicate. After all, there are probably all sorts of ways to communicate over distances that we just aren't advanced enough to know about, let alone implement.
Also, why would they be naive enough to think that any alien race that was stupid to broadcast news of its existence would still be worth contacting when we invented the means to? Do they really think that all alien life is non-destructive?
Oh wait... we've been polluting the airwaves for almost a century and actively launching probes like Voyager to initiate contact...
I think I'll go cower under my bed now...
No, actually, the most useful project that I have seen come out of either of them is distributed.net's Optimal Golomb Rulers Project. With the results from this project, someone could actually do something practical, like figure out the optimal spacing for radio transmitters, I believe.
Well, not THAT familiar, but someone used a similar concept (processors on a PCI board) here. I believe this was posted on Slashdot a few weeks ago.
Anyway, this card is a LOT cheaper.
Quick, someone snatch this one up for distributed.net!
What in God's name could they have done to it to make half the processors die? That's an expensive mistake!
Your testicles, eh? You really should have a doctor check that out, that's disgusting. You must look something like this.
Idon'tneednoboozeordrugs
Ijustchug-a-lugmycoffeemug
Idon'tneednokissandhug
Ijustchug-a-lugmycoffeemug
mugmugmugmug
If any of you have ever heard the Descendents before, you will know that "caffiene fueled punk rock" is a very apt description.
I recommend finding the song "Coffee Mug" on Napst^H^H^H^H^H at your local music store. Look on the album "Everything Sucks". I'm sure most of you will relate to it (the song) in some way.
mmmmm... a beowulf rendering farm...
Wait!! Don't mod me down!! umm...
Now that there are some seriously expensive and powerful 3D graphics programs for Linux, could there be a possibility of pirated software like this program springing up on IRC?
An interesting concept considering that the only warez that I ever hear about are either for the Mac or Windows.
Ha ha ha! Mod this up!
How do you take a dryer? With a delivery truck??
Satellite phones? Those were expensive as hell, last time I checked. And all the satellite ISPs I have heard of only transmit downstream data through the satellite, the upstream goes through the phone lines.
O.K., sorry, that post was written before I actually read any of the comments. It seems kinda asinine now.
ahem... USE PGP! Jeez, if you don't want the governments of rouge nations spying on you and whatnot, using it with e-mail is a sufficient medium for communication. Legality and arms trafficking violations be damned! If you aren't allowed to download strong encryption from the U.S. according to U.S. law, but you fear persecution from your government for what you say, what would you do?
I guess I didn't make my point clear. What I meant was: it is harder to root several machines than it is to root just one machine. If something pretty exploitable like BIND or sendmail is running on the same machine as your firewall, then your firewall gets taken down at the same time that BIND or sendmail gets exploited, so instead of having a problem with one service, not only is your security gone, but so are two or three other services.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Simple logic.
I don't know about professional graphics programs, but high-end games take up a lot of system resources. Games like Quake III, for instance. It has come to the point, actually, where even the fastest processors can't keep up with requests from the graphics card. You must remember that for us gamers, a few frames per second matter a whole hell of a lot (that, and low network latency :-).
Of course, I have to speculate that the inherent crappiness of the I/O on x86 is gonna catch up with us sometime on the graphics front.
Yes, except that just about every game is NOT multi-threaded (with the notable exception of Quake III Arena), and therefore can't take advantage of more than one processor. And don't even get me started on trying SMP with Windows 98. Also, it would cost you more than $300 for a dual 550 setup, because SMP motherboards cost much more than single processor motherboards.
Just remember, 2 * 550Mhz processors != 1.1Ghz of processing power for most games and other common applications. Although many people on eBay would like to tell you different.
C'mon, this is OLD NEWS . I have posted this link numerous times in the past. Get a clue, Slashdot.
I use programs like Napster and Gnutella heavily to aquire Mp3s of bands that I either like (as in I own some of their other work) or that I have heard good things about. This has acutally led me to buy more albums overall, despite me having a burner. Why? Because I like bands with intense levels of bass guitar, such as Rancid and NoMeansNo. With Mp3s (IMHO), you just can't even approach the quality of CD music, even on high-bitrate Mp3s, but you get an idea of how good the song is. There is a world of difference between listening to "Roots Radicals" on CD (awesome) as opposed to Mp3 (slightly tinny).
That, and I like the cover art, and I like supporting good bands.
I am an advocate
I am an advocate
Don't know what they want
But they know how to read it
I wanna destroy censorship
'Cause
I wanna have some privacy
No dogs body
Privacy for the U.K.
It's coming sometime maybe
I give a wrong passwd, stop a telnet session
Your future privacy really stinks
Cause
I wanna have some privacy
On the Internet
How many ways to get what you want?
I use ssh
I use PGP
I use the enemy
I use privacy!
Cause
I wanna have some privacy
It's the only way to be!
Is this the M.P.A.A. or
Is this the R.I.A.A. or
Is this the I.R.A.?
I thought it was the U.K.
Or just another country
Another spyware tendency
I wanna have some privacy
I wanna have some privacy
Oh what a name
And I wanna be a privacy advocate
Get pissed!
Encrypt!
--
RIP: No Anarchy In the U.K.
Oh, great. Now, instead of having a standard VGA port with which to connect a monitor, you are now FORCED to shell out big $$$ for one of Apple's overpriced monitors. This is definitely NOT a good example of "thinking different".
Also, is this thing expandable, like the G4 towers, or is it a one-size-fits-all kind of concept, like the iMac, where not even the video card is upgradable?
Pretty hackable? Remember, we are talking about Microsoft here. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Well, at least the first two.
Also, you bring up an interesting possibility for the distribution of games that will be made on the X-Box. I read somewhere that with all of Microsoft's holdings in and aquisitions of broadband providers, that they plan to develop centrally managed applications in the future, i.e. running Office on a central server somewhere, and having everyone use their computers as terminals. A pretty good stratagy for preventing piracy. Also a pretty good stratagy for absolute control over their own applications.
But this is only speculation...
I mean, really. I heard on the news back around the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, they sued some Greek guy over the name of his restaurant, because he had the word "Olympic" in there somewhere. They remind me a lot of some large corporations, ahem, BELLSOUTH, who search out domain names that are derogotory towards them and then try to intimidate the owners into selling them the domain.