I was doing some cleaning on the weekend and I found the "God Particle" and some loose change underneath some cushions on the living room couch. Sorry about that.
I know LEDs are all the big rage now for displays. You see the seven-segment LED displays on calculators. But, while watching TV a year ago, I had an idea... what if I were to somehow connect up a TV to my computer? It took me a couple months, but I finally got it working... yes, a TV screen (well, actually it's not a TV anymore since I had to take out the receiver guts) connected to a computer. Since I use it to MONITOR the status of the various programs running on the computer, I'm going to call this contraption a "Monitor" I'll make millions! Also...I was out in my garage the other day cleaning and I found a dead mouse in the corner...and again, my mind is always working... I though...what would happen if I plugged this little guy's tail into the back of my computer, and replaced his legs with little motion-sensing wheels? I'll let you alll know the results when I finish my new invention. I'm calling it the Mobile Organic Universal Sensor Emulator, or MOUSE for short.
What? Am I the only old-timer here? There's an RFC standard that fits this PERFECTLY http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt "1 April 1990: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers"
I wouldn't fool around with Slackware with anything less than 128M RAM and a Pentium Pro 200MHz CPU (and dual CPUs are better). YMMV.
hahaha you young whippersnapper. 128M RAM???! Geesh, I'm running a relatively fast (1m25s to boot to multiuser login prompt) customized Slackware with X & graphical browser on an old Compaq laptop with only 32MB of memory. I also run a couple of machines with...wait for it... 8MB of memory... no X, but heck all I need is nethack
btw: my VAX in the basement runs an unmodified completely modern version of OpenBSD "out of the box" and it only has 8MB
Easy to find out, just ask google for "clubbing a staked-out bunny" - it provides around 90 results, all of them apparently copies or links to the article we are discussing here. So "who EVER says that?" - just Bruce Byfield, it appears.
It's interesting... I believe we are watching a new term being born! When I posted my original comment (grandparent to this comment), Google had only FOUR hits for the term. Now, the next morning, as I post this... Google has 235 hits for the term including a hit on "dailylife.com" under the "Natalie Portman" topic http://www.daylife.com/topic/Natalie_Portman/articles/custom/date/1?end=20081112&start=20081111
I'm going to start using that phrase in day-to-day conversations and see if I can get it as popular as "Bob's your Uncle"
I eagerly followed the link in summary hoping to see some good bunny staking pictures or even bunnies clubbing a steak (for tenderness?), but NOOOO, I get some article about Google and OpenOffice. Seriously, who came up with the term "clubbing a staked-out bunny"? Who EVER says that? Is this a reference to some Simpson's episode (w. Natalie Portman doing voice overs) that I missed?
I can understand that back in the web's "stone age" (mid 1990s), having HTTPS for every web site would have seriously slowed down all the computers due to CPU usage, but nowadays is there any real good reason that the whole web can't be HTTPS? With all the government and ISP snoopings going on, I'm surprised that at least some sites haven't gone that way. (or is it that embedded browsers like on cell phones can't do SSL?)
Oh great. Yet another Linux distribution that www.distrowatch.org is going to have to track. "McCain-ix" Probably needs 1GB just to load. I'll stick with Obama-mama-ix thanks.
yeah, I just read with Javascript off because of this problem. Also, when I'm on a Mac, Safari frequently crashes while browsing Slashdot when Javascript is on for the past month or so
Since the article mentions "and with Storm using the latest generation of P2P technology" I think the only reasonable solution to this is to for all of us to call our ISPs and demand that this "P2P" thing be either throttled back or somehow forced to stop, perhaps by sending out fake RST packets whenever the ISP sees "P2P traffic. Yeah, let's all do that so we can nip this Storm bot in the bud.
My understanding is that people in public should have no expectations of privacy.
That's an overly simplified view. Are you saying that in public it should be legal to be able to take pictures of anybody from any angle/viewpoint? (eg: upskirt) Can I take my parabolic microphone and start recording people's conversations 100 meters away and then post the conversations on the Internet? Why can't people walk around with no clothes on in public if they aren't doing anything weird or being "sexual" (whatever that means)? If there are no expectations of privacy, then what's the problem? (sarcasm)
I would modify your "no expectations of privacy in public" to "reduced expectations of privacy in public"
Sort-of off topic, but also sort-of on topic... If you have an out of focus picture, can you manipulate the image mathematically to put it "in focus" or is there some information lost in the out-of-focusness so you can't do this. And if so, with the appropriate app, will you be able to un-blur the people's faces in Google Street View?
Now we have traffic james, offramps, city streets on the Internet. Do we have playground zones, back alleys, sidewalks? Oh probably. And will these traffic jams be faster than the speed of light from the tip of a finger to the knuckle or will speed be measured in how fast a VW Bug can drive the Internet to the Library of Congress? Let the Bad Analogies begin.
OK, so the Google van went onto private property and took pictures... OOPS. However, I can see the possibilities in 50 years when postal/delivery services become more and more automated. Most people currently allow access to parts of their private property to unknown people in terms of the mailman, the UPS guy, the newspaper boy, etc. What happens in 50 years when most of these services are automated by Roomba-like vehicles that wander around neighborhoods delivering services? They may need to have a camera on board to assist with path navigation and yes, they may need access to YOUR private property. We need to figure out what to do now so that we can come up with rules to be applied in the future.
Oddly enough, quite a few people still have Windows 98 running (I have a Win98 machine in my basement doing my CDEX ripping). When Microsoft turns off the activation servers, that basically REALLY means the end of WinXP... or is there a chance, any chance, that Microsoft will release a super-secret "unlock all" patch in 2014 that will allow XP to be activated. I am pretty sure the answer is NO, but I can still hope.
Actually, our local "classic rock" radio station, plays an edited version of that song... it's a good edit, but I notice it because I own the LP record. Also Pink Floyd's "Money" says "bullshit" and that usually airs unedited.
Aww crap... sorry... I thought TFA was about Encryption, not Authentication... so instead of a potential +5 Funny, I get a -1 Irrelevant. That's what I get for posting at 5:30am before I've had my caffeine.
OK... so Alice wants to talk to Bob, right? Charlie, recognizing the classic "ABC" combination of names, immediately begins intercepting the data traffic and applying a hyperbolic curve decryption analysis with his pal, Doug. Edgar, who is a known friend of both Alice and Bob, is also aware of the decryption attempt so he sends Fred, a neutral third-party pre-selected from a random pool to a local restaurant to make reservations for Alice and Bob and thereafter asks both of them out for dinner. Alice and Bob arrive at the appointed time, have a few drinks, some appetizers and a WONDERFUL meal, while all the time talking about stuff that they wanted to talk about. Meanwhile Charlie and Doug are tryping to decrypt random noise.
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I was doing some cleaning on the weekend and I found the "God Particle" and some loose change underneath some cushions on the living room couch.
Sorry about that.
I know LEDs are all the big rage now for displays. You see the seven-segment LED displays on calculators. But, while watching TV a year ago, I had an idea... what if I were to somehow connect up a TV to my computer? It took me a couple months, but I finally got it working... yes, a TV screen (well, actually it's not a TV anymore since I had to take out the receiver guts) connected to a computer. Since I use it to MONITOR the status of the various programs running on the computer, I'm going to call this contraption a "Monitor"
I'll make millions!
Also...I was out in my garage the other day cleaning and I found a dead mouse in the corner...and again, my mind is always working... I though...what would happen if I plugged this little guy's tail into the back of my computer, and replaced his legs with little motion-sensing wheels? I'll let you alll know the results when I finish my new invention. I'm calling it the Mobile Organic Universal Sensor Emulator, or MOUSE for short.
What? Am I the only old-timer here? There's an RFC standard that fits this PERFECTLY
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt
"1 April 1990: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers"
Thomas Dzubin
I wouldn't fool around with Slackware with anything less than 128M RAM and a Pentium Pro 200MHz CPU (and dual CPUs are better). YMMV.
hahaha you young whippersnapper. 128M RAM???! Geesh, I'm running a relatively fast (1m25s to boot to multiuser login prompt) customized Slackware with X & graphical browser on an old Compaq laptop with only 32MB of memory. I also run a couple of machines with ...wait for it... 8MB of memory... no X, but heck all I need is nethack
btw: my VAX in the basement runs an unmodified completely modern version of OpenBSD "out of the box" and it only has 8MB
Easy to find out, just ask google for "clubbing a staked-out bunny" - it provides around 90 results, all of them apparently copies or links to the article we are discussing here. So "who EVER says that?" - just Bruce Byfield, it appears.
It's interesting... I believe we are watching a new term being born! When I posted my original comment (grandparent to this comment), Google had only FOUR hits for the term. Now, the next morning, as I post this... Google has 235 hits for the term including a hit on "dailylife.com" under the "Natalie Portman" topic http://www.daylife.com/topic/Natalie_Portman/articles/custom/date/1?end=20081112&start=20081111
I'm going to start using that phrase in day-to-day conversations and see if I can get it as popular as "Bob's your Uncle"
I eagerly followed the link in summary hoping to see some good bunny staking pictures or even bunnies clubbing a steak (for tenderness?), but NOOOO, I get some article about Google and OpenOffice. Seriously, who came up with the term "clubbing a staked-out bunny"? Who EVER says that?
Is this a reference to some Simpson's episode (w. Natalie Portman doing voice overs) that I missed?
> crack our neighbour's heads open and feast on the goo inside?
Now theres something on your to do list!
The original Simpson's quote is from "Homer the Vigilante" http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/episodes/1F09
ob Python reference: A witch turned me into a newt once. Luckily, I got better.
I can understand that back in the web's "stone age" (mid 1990s), having HTTPS for every web site would have seriously slowed down all the computers due to CPU usage, but nowadays is there any real good reason that the whole web can't be HTTPS?
With all the government and ISP snoopings going on, I'm surprised that at least some sites haven't gone that way.
(or is it that embedded browsers like on cell phones can't do SSL?)
TDz.
Oh great. Yet another Linux distribution that www.distrowatch.org is going to have to track. "McCain-ix"
Probably needs 1GB just to load. I'll stick with Obama-mama-ix thanks.
yeah, I just read with Javascript off because of this problem. Also, when I'm on a Mac, Safari frequently crashes while browsing Slashdot when Javascript is on for the past month or so
As I've learned well in the Microsoft world... always wait for the THIRD version.
I've marked my calendar for June 2038...
Extended G-forces during launch might be a good test of how well solder joints, connectors, and other components are made.
Since the article mentions "and with Storm using the latest generation of P2P technology"
I think the only reasonable solution to this is to for all of us to call our ISPs and demand that this "P2P" thing be either throttled back or somehow forced to stop, perhaps by sending out fake RST packets whenever the ISP sees "P2P traffic. Yeah, let's all do that so we can nip this Storm bot in the bud.
That's an overly simplified view. Are you saying that in public it should be legal to be able to take pictures of anybody from any angle/viewpoint? (eg: upskirt)
Can I take my parabolic microphone and start recording people's conversations 100 meters away and then post the conversations on the Internet?
Why can't people walk around with no clothes on in public if they aren't doing anything weird or being "sexual" (whatever that means)?
If there are no expectations of privacy, then what's the problem? (sarcasm)
I would modify your "no expectations of privacy in public" to "reduced expectations of privacy in public"
Sort-of off topic, but also sort-of on topic...
If you have an out of focus picture, can you manipulate the image mathematically to put it "in focus" or is there some information lost in the out-of-focusness so you can't do this.
And if so, with the appropriate app, will you be able to un-blur the people's faces in Google Street View?
Now we have traffic james, offramps, city streets on the Internet. Do we have playground zones, back alleys, sidewalks? Oh probably. And will these traffic jams be faster than the speed of light from the tip of a finger to the knuckle or will speed be measured in how fast a VW Bug can drive the Internet to the Library of Congress?
Let the Bad Analogies begin.
TDz.
OK, so the Google van went onto private property and took pictures... OOPS. However, I can see the possibilities in 50 years when postal/delivery services become more and more automated. Most people currently allow access to parts of their private property to unknown people in terms of the mailman, the UPS guy, the newspaper boy, etc. What happens in 50 years when most of these services are automated by Roomba-like vehicles that wander around neighborhoods delivering services? They may need to have a camera on board to assist with path navigation and yes, they may need access to YOUR private property. We need to figure out what to do now so that we can come up with rules to be applied in the future.
Oddly enough, quite a few people still have Windows 98 running (I have a Win98 machine in my basement doing my CDEX ripping).
When Microsoft turns off the activation servers, that basically REALLY means the end of WinXP... or is there a chance, any chance, that Microsoft will release a super-secret "unlock all" patch in 2014 that will allow XP to be activated. I am pretty sure the answer is NO, but I can still hope.
Thank-you from someone who celebrates on Jan 7. (and everyone gives me funny looks when I take that day off work)
Heck, I remember when "Pentium" came out and people laughed
Actually, our local "classic rock" radio station, plays an edited version of that song... it's a good edit, but I notice it because I own the LP record.
Also Pink Floyd's "Money" says "bullshit" and that usually airs unedited.
Yes, but the fireworks factory and "Wurn Snell of Colitas" story is completely true.
Thomas Dz.
Aww crap... sorry... I thought TFA was about Encryption, not Authentication... so instead of a potential +5 Funny, I get a -1 Irrelevant.
That's what I get for posting at 5:30am before I've had my caffeine.
OK... so Alice wants to talk to Bob, right? Charlie, recognizing the classic "ABC" combination of names, immediately begins intercepting the data traffic and applying a hyperbolic curve decryption analysis with his pal, Doug. Edgar, who is a known friend of both Alice and Bob, is also aware of the decryption attempt so he sends Fred, a neutral third-party pre-selected from a random pool to a local restaurant to make reservations for Alice and Bob and thereafter asks both of them out for dinner. Alice and Bob arrive at the appointed time, have a few drinks, some appetizers and a WONDERFUL meal, while all the time talking about stuff that they wanted to talk about. Meanwhile Charlie and Doug are tryping to decrypt random noise.