I'm really not that surprised that they didn't find anything out of all the USENET images that they scanned. First of all, even considering that they had such immense computational power at their disposal, stegonography done right would probably elude detection by any software currently available. Secondly, they have probably not considered the fact that the messages that are hidden could be encrypted, thus thwarting any kind of dictionary attack against the image. This actually serves to strengthen the security of the message, since to brute-force the message they not only have to decrypt the message, but they have to find the right bits to decrypt in the first place.
Really, even with a Beowulf cluster, processing that many images so soon makes it seem like they gave it only a cursory examination.
Who cares? Apple is hyping this shit to high heaven. Think about the last time that happened. It just so turns out that Steve Jobs is so full of shit that he would hype a fucking trashcan if he thought he could make a buck off it. He hyped the Segway before everyone knew what it was, and guess what? He was way full of shit, it really isn't that revolutionary or great, and one certainly wouldn't "build whole cities around it," like he claimed.
Considering that the last release from Apple was a disappointing overpriced MP3 player, whatever they release this time must be incredibly mundane for them to hype it up so much.
OK, so I may not be the biggest fan of Microsoft ever and I certainly limit myself to only administering Windows machines, but I think that DH Brown may have a point in their conclusions. Extremely biased language of The Register aside, I think it would be fair to say that they weren't far off the mark.
Linux is, after all, an extremely expensive operating system. After all, just look at Hewlett Packard, their Linux distribution sells for $3000 retail. When was the last time you saw a copy of Windows XP (and this is a retail copy, not considering the fact that it comes free with most new machines) for $3000? And think of the support costs! Whereas you can drag just about any MCSE off the street who doesn't drool too much and use him to effectively administer an NT network, you need highly intelligent, qualified people 24/7 in order to maintain a Linux installation. And guess what? They don't grow on trees, enough of you ought to know that; they are expensive. Just as with commercial UNIX, it isn't the initial cost that will break you, it is the ongoing support contracts from the vendor that are the most expensive over time.
It's good to see that the real charitable people like Wil Wheaton are donating to a real worthy cause. What most people don't realize is that our online rights are very much simply an extension of our meat-space rights. Once they make it OK to oppress us online, real life is next.
Anyway, I'm not able to view Weakest Link, unfortuately, since I'm in a market without NBC (gawd). However, I have heard rumors recently that Roxanne was a complete and utter bitch to Wil during the filming of the show (as is evidenced on Wil Wheaton's site). Further examination of this leads to Roxann's site, where apparently the guestbook is censored of all comments pleading with her to forgive Wil and whatnot. No surprises there, but it was kind of interesting to see what happens when Wil acts like a dick to women.
Obligitory comment: Imagine a RAID array of these!
Seriously, though, having one of these would kick ass. No more waiting for my stupid CD jukebox to shuffle to the right disk, you can make custom playlists, and, best of all, you can play your MP3 collection on it. Next 20K that I find on the ground, I'm getting one!
I was frankly shocked that so many states would go for this ludicrous M$ settlement proposal. Not only would they be able to set the price for the software that they were "giving away" to match the required monetary value of the settlement, but these schools that are the poorest of the poor would have to upgrade their site licenses in something like 5 years.
Let's make this clear: they are going to make money off of poor schools while coming off as altruistic at the same time. Can you imagine the M$ software audit nazis shutting down a school because it couldn't afford to upgrade the site license to their "free" software? I'm glad to see that the State of California, home of many good things, has the balls to stand up to this crap.
Which reminds me of another thing: how the hell is "giving away" software to poor schools going to help all of the victims of the M$ monopoly? How long have these lawyers been away from the outside world, that they would lose sight of their objectives? I guess since its all money to them, they don't really give two shits one way or the other...
Why wouldn't they support their products? I paid money for them and they promised me that they would support it in return, in case it should ever fail. I have full confidence in Dell to replace my failing IBM drive just like they said they would.
NetBSD's site probably got overloaded. For everyone who wants to see the letter, just head on over to Google's cache (that's http://google.com/search?q=cache:FNOrsKwxyws:netbs d.org//Letters/20010803-dolby.html&hl=en for the goatse paranoid).
I've had Ameritech DSL for about 1 year now, and I have to tell you that it's the best thing that has ever happened to me. Not only were they prompt in their installation (turning on service and installing the equipment in my home right when they said they would: 1 week after I called), but they also have had impeccable uptime. I have never noticed an outage on my DSL line, and I'm always maxxing out my bandwidth when I upgrade my Linux kernel every once in a while.
Haven't tried tech support yet, but I'd imagine that they live up to Ameritech's gold standard. With telcos that provide service this nice, I'm starting to think that monopolies aren't such bad things after all...
Ha! You certainly have it worse than me, but here they have an equally-clever panacea: "Did you clear your internet cache?"
Oh, it's always a blast to rip the ethernet out of the router so that I can have a direct connection to their network; otherwise, they just tell you that they don't support that configuration and hang up.
Yes, but then again, they're the ones paying. If I was paying for someone else to troubleshoot my network, I would certainly expect them to at least have a foggy idea of what DNS is, and not confuse it with DHCP. Actually, one time when I called, I actually had to explain what DNS was, in childish terms that the moron could understand (Every site on the internet has to have some way to be distinguished from others, that's called an IP address. Now, what DNS does...).
You know what I'm talking about: 70 sweaty adolescents and grown men, packed into a room full of gigantic running monitors, who have been there for the last 12 hours, just sitting in their chairs...
Ugh, the stench was unbearable. No wonder everyone opted to go to a resturant for eating.
FreeBSD does not have a very significant market share, compared to Linux, and especially NT.
Unless, of course, you count all of the embedded and dedicated NON INTERNET SERVER systems out there that run FreeBSD because of it's non-restrictive license. You know, there are a lot more than you realize...
Are you actually suggesting that Bay News 9 is a valid source for news? I don't even bother watching the Tampa news because they have such a penchant for sensationalism. Almost as much as Michael, in fact. So please, stick to reliable sources before submitting to Slashdot and giving them a license to go off the deep end.
Actually, the last time I made an inquiry to my local wireless internet company about their coverage in my area, I got into a conversation with the person on the other end of the phone about their network topology and so forth. It turns out that even though their hardware is only rated to shoot the signal up to 20 miles, they've actually gotten it to go farther than 25.
Oh, and don't you think you should just buy banner space on Slashdot instead? It's probably a lot more effective.
I'm just now assembling the parts for a new computer myself, and I opted to go with some Seagate Ultra160 18XL drives. Even if they are technically "slower" than this new ATA drive, I am still happy I bought them instead. Why? For several reasons:
Seagate makes notoriously crappy ATA drives. Their SCSI line may be great, but they have never made a name for themselves in the ATA industry.
When was the last time you saw someone attaching more than 2 devices to an ATA channel? That's right, never. If you want to make a RAID array, you have to get at least two channels, and that's just for the hard drives!
ATA/100 just ain't that fast when compared to the awesome power of Ultra160 SCSI.
The most important reason: This product wasn't even out when I bought my storage system.
However, it's good to see that this kind of technology exists in the market, and perhaps it will produce a trickle-down effect so that we will see cheaper drives equipped with this technology available to a wider audience.
though there is a lot to be said for the stability of the Chinese government, when America has lasted half as long as the Ming or Han dynasty, then lets talk
OK, first of all, the current Chinese government is certainly NOT the same one as either the Ming or Han dynasties. Second of all, do you know how they achieve that stability? Through totalitarian militaristic rule. Their basic philosophy in countering political unrest is sending in the army and completely obliterating everyone in the area. Do you really want to see that in the U.S.?
Gephardt also weighed in on the spectrum debate, saying he believes that the U.S. Department of Defense should give up some of the airwaves it currently occupies to make room for wireless operators that want to offer 3G (third-generation) services. That would be good news for telecommunications companies planning to build 3G networks, but it would also require significant spending so the Defense Department could replace its networks that rely on those airwaves.
That's right, folks. Not only are we going to simultaneously cut Department of Defense resources while actually incurring EXTRA EXPENSES, but we will also virtually give away the airwaves, YET AGAIN, to large corporations, for them to do with as they please, namely MAKE MONEY AT THE GOVERNMENT'S EXPENSE. This kind of corporate subsidizing makes me sick, especially so since it is a supposedly liberal Democrat who is proposing that we do so.
It is worth considering that you don't need to be a Kreskin to predict VA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: VA Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for VA because Slashdot is dying. Things are looking very bad for VA Linux. As many of us are already aware, VA continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Their overpriced hardware is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers:
Slashdot leader Taco states that there are 7000 users of Slashdot (the rest of the accounts are for trolls to mod themselves up). How many users of Plastic are there? Let's see. The number of Slashdot versus Plastic posts on their respective sites is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Plastic users. Geekizoid posts on their site are about half of the volume of Plastic posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Geekizoid. A recent article put Slashdot at about 80 percent of the VA market cap. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 VA Linux users. This is consistent with the number of alpha-stage SourceForge projects.
Due to the troubles of Andover, abysmal sales and so on, they went out of business and were taken over by VA Linux, who sell another troubled OS. Now VA Linux is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Slashdot has steadily declined in market share. Slashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Slashdot is to survive at all it will be among fanatical open source zealots. Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Slashdot is dead.
Not too long, I'd say. For example, a friend of mine's site, fuckcihost.com, a site that is critical of a dedicated hosting company, just got shut down for being "confusingly similar" to the CI Host site, even though it looks nothing like it and even has warnings saying that it is not CI Host's real site in big letters all over it.
Ha! Yeah right! If solar power was actually efficient enough in a power/acre manner to run a frickin' data center, don't you think they would have already done it? It would be waaay too cost prohibitive for anyone to even think of doing it.
Oh, and would the said datacenter specialize in Solaris administration?:-)
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Really, even with a Beowulf cluster, processing that many images so soon makes it seem like they gave it only a cursory examination.
Considering that the last release from Apple was a disappointing overpriced MP3 player, whatever they release this time must be incredibly mundane for them to hype it up so much.
Linux is, after all, an extremely expensive operating system. After all, just look at Hewlett Packard, their Linux distribution sells for $3000 retail. When was the last time you saw a copy of Windows XP (and this is a retail copy, not considering the fact that it comes free with most new machines) for $3000? And think of the support costs! Whereas you can drag just about any MCSE off the street who doesn't drool too much and use him to effectively administer an NT network, you need highly intelligent, qualified people 24/7 in order to maintain a Linux installation. And guess what? They don't grow on trees, enough of you ought to know that; they are expensive. Just as with commercial UNIX, it isn't the initial cost that will break you, it is the ongoing support contracts from the vendor that are the most expensive over time.
They have Canadarm now! They're unstoppable!
Anyway, I'm not able to view Weakest Link, unfortuately, since I'm in a market without NBC (gawd). However, I have heard rumors recently that Roxanne was a complete and utter bitch to Wil during the filming of the show (as is evidenced on Wil Wheaton's site). Further examination of this leads to Roxann's site, where apparently the guestbook is censored of all comments pleading with her to forgive Wil and whatnot. No surprises there, but it was kind of interesting to see what happens when Wil acts like a dick to women.
Seriously, though, having one of these would kick ass. No more waiting for my stupid CD jukebox to shuffle to the right disk, you can make custom playlists, and, best of all, you can play your MP3 collection on it. Next 20K that I find on the ground, I'm getting one!
Let's make this clear: they are going to make money off of poor schools while coming off as altruistic at the same time. Can you imagine the M$ software audit nazis shutting down a school because it couldn't afford to upgrade the site license to their "free" software? I'm glad to see that the State of California, home of many good things, has the balls to stand up to this crap.
Which reminds me of another thing: how the hell is "giving away" software to poor schools going to help all of the victims of the M$ monopoly? How long have these lawyers been away from the outside world, that they would lose sight of their objectives? I guess since its all money to them, they don't really give two shits one way or the other...
Doesn't anyone trust hardware manufacturers anymore?
You can probably get the general drift of the story until the Slashdot effect lets up and you can read the actual article.
NetBSD's site probably got overloaded. For everyone who wants to see the letter, just head on over to Google's cache (that's http://google.com/search?q=cache:FNOrsKwxyws:netbs d.org//Letters/20010803-dolby.html&hl=en for the goatse paranoid).
Just in case it gets too heavily loaded... you can always go to the Google cache.
Haven't tried tech support yet, but I'd imagine that they live up to Ameritech's gold standard. With telcos that provide service this nice, I'm starting to think that monopolies aren't such bad things after all...
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Oh, it's always a blast to rip the ethernet out of the router so that I can have a direct connection to their network; otherwise, they just tell you that they don't support that configuration and hang up.
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Newsflash, man: I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT!
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You know what I'm talking about: 70 sweaty adolescents and grown men, packed into a room full of gigantic running monitors, who have been there for the last 12 hours, just sitting in their chairs...
Ugh, the stench was unbearable. No wonder everyone opted to go to a resturant for eating.
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Unless, of course, you count all of the embedded and dedicated NON INTERNET SERVER systems out there that run FreeBSD because of it's non-restrictive license. You know, there are a lot more than you realize...
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Oh, and don't you think you should just buy banner space on Slashdot instead? It's probably a lot more effective.
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Seagate makes notoriously crappy ATA drives. Their SCSI line may be great, but they have never made a name for themselves in the ATA industry.
When was the last time you saw someone attaching more than 2 devices to an ATA channel? That's right, never. If you want to make a RAID array, you have to get at least two channels, and that's just for the hard drives!
ATA/100 just ain't that fast when compared to the awesome power of Ultra160 SCSI.
The most important reason: This product wasn't even out when I bought my storage system.
However, it's good to see that this kind of technology exists in the market, and perhaps it will produce a trickle-down effect so that we will see cheaper drives equipped with this technology available to a wider audience.
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OK, first of all, the current Chinese government is certainly NOT the same one as either the Ming or Han dynasties. Second of all, do you know how they achieve that stability? Through totalitarian militaristic rule. Their basic philosophy in countering political unrest is sending in the army and completely obliterating everyone in the area. Do you really want to see that in the U.S.?
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That's right, folks. Not only are we going to simultaneously cut Department of Defense resources while actually incurring EXTRA EXPENSES, but we will also virtually give away the airwaves, YET AGAIN, to large corporations, for them to do with as they please, namely MAKE MONEY AT THE GOVERNMENT'S EXPENSE. This kind of corporate subsidizing makes me sick, especially so since it is a supposedly liberal Democrat who is proposing that we do so.
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It is worth considering that you don't need to be a Kreskin to predict VA's future. The hand writing is on the wall: VA Linux faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for VA because Slashdot is dying. Things are looking very bad for VA Linux. As many of us are already aware, VA continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood. Their overpriced hardware is the most endangered of them all.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers:
Slashdot leader Taco states that there are 7000 users of Slashdot (the rest of the accounts are for trolls to mod themselves up). How many users of Plastic are there? Let's see. The number of Slashdot versus Plastic posts on their respective sites is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Plastic users. Geekizoid posts on their site are about half of the volume of Plastic posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Geekizoid. A recent article put Slashdot at about 80 percent of the VA market cap. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 VA Linux users. This is consistent with the number of alpha-stage SourceForge projects.
Due to the troubles of Andover, abysmal sales and so on, they went out of business and were taken over by VA Linux, who sell another troubled OS. Now VA Linux is also dead, its corpse turned over to another charnel house.
All major surveys show that Slashdot has steadily declined in market share. Slashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Slashdot is to survive at all it will be among fanatical open source zealots. Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Slashdot is dead.
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Oh, and would the said datacenter specialize in Solaris administration? :-)
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