What kind of rubbish is this? Ah yes, the "utopian" future where security isn't needed because everything is already built so secure that nobody could possibly penetrate the defenses. Jeez... where have I heard this drivel before...?
As long as human beings are involved with something, there will always be "good" humans, and "evil bad" humans trying to undermine the "good" ones. It's as simple as that. To think otherwise is folly.
...cause I sure as hell wouldn't want to use eMule or any other P2P app without PeerGuardian, which at last count was banning over 7 million IP addresses... many of which are in such nefarious States as China and Russia.
You know, I kept hearing that Colbert was a nerd / geek / whatever before watching the interview, and now I gotta question where people got that impression from? He clearly didn't know much about the games he was referring to, or maybe he was just playing dumb... if so, it was stupid, well beneath his level with many of his other guests. Will definitely got MUCH more speaking time than the typical Colbert guest, which is what leads me to believe Steve was simply not able to keep up with Wright at all - and any self-respecting geek would not have had that problem in that situation!
I think Wired is barking up the exact same, wrong, tree, that Diebold and every other manufacturer of voting machines is barking up - namely that they have all the answers.
The solution is very simple: require all electronic voting machines to be open source, and invite all software developers around the world to peer review the code. When that majoriy agrees that a system is secure, then it's ready for use.
I would think you could rig up a second tile with DNA taken from the same source material. This could act as a unit test against mutations in the DNA that might affect the outcome on tile 1. If the mutant genes on the second tile suddenly produce some undesirable outcome, then toss the whole batch and start over again.
Yeay... the thread has devloved into the age-old classic "Driving in your town may be bad, but driving where _I_ live SUCKS ASS!!! These morons don't have a freakin' CLUE man!!!"
Rinse, spin, pick new city, repeat... drivers are idiots EVERYWHERE!!:)
This would be a great way for parents to enforce a curfew on their teens... send their cell phones the signal to scream until they get home, and block all calls except to good ol' dear mom and pop.
It beats all the other re-run, re-hashed, and re-apportioned "news" this site l33ches on a daily basis. I often find little to nothing original by the time I end up hitting/. in a given day. Is/. even relevant anymore?
Nope... DTV and TiVo have a reciprocal agreement not to sue each other over patents. DTV still supports the older DTiVo boxes by not deactivating the service, while TiVo doesn't sue DTV. That's my understanding at any rate... get more info at www.tivocommunity.org
Subject says it all... Sony screwed the pooch yet again by completely slamming the doors shut on any efforts to tinker with the PSP by 3rd parties, and requires users to use their propietary memory and disc formats to do anything at all with it. Bottom line - Sony suffers, early adopters suffer, and nobody wins. Brilliant strategy Sony, keep it up and maybe, just maybe, we'll finally have an American electronics company again!!!;-)
$600 is definitely too much considering how likely it is you'll be mugged in the mall parking lot by a gang banging group of g@m3rz after you buy it from GameStop around xmas time. Then you'll be out another $1200 when you buy one from me on eBay cause you only pre-ordered one.
Is/. now a couple years behind the current news? Cause I definitely remember reading lots of articles about scientists who can't get grants in New Scientist magazine oh, two years ago. And I doubt that was the first mention of this phenomenon (do do, do do do) either.
Wow, that's actually pretty cool. I use Speakeasy too, and wouldn't mind sharing the connection... what would be nice is if you could control the amount of bandwidth useable by "guest" users vs. "registered" users. I'd probably be much more willing to open up my AP if that were allowed, but as it is, I'm stuck out in the 'burbs, where folks aren't nearly as likely to be strolling down the street in need of an open hotspot.
*no one* is to blame in this but the vendors of wireless products. If cars were sold in a state that the doors did not lock unless you had a basic knowledge of auto mechanics and had to open up the hood and adjust a few things, there would be outrage until auto makers stepped up and made doors lock by default, or at the press of a button.
This isn't the problem... the problem is that the lusers don't even know that there's a lock to begin with!
One thing I've heard of recently is local municipalities in the U.S. passing ordinances against photography of certain buildings / statues / other landmarks, or against photography of children in playgrounds, etc. Not sure as to the constitutionality of these laws, but expect to see more of them.
The problem as I see it is the figurehead at the top of this mess we call a "free" country is explicitly of the position that freedom must be sacrificed in the name of security. And the sheep are clearly in agreement as there appears to be little resistance to these laws.
I've heard that the vast majority of Chinese don't even know that anything happened in Tianeman Square. I highly doubt that they realize they've been duped by their own government if they don't even know about one of the most important quashes of free speech in the 20th Century, in their own country no less.
Wow, even _I_ can claim prior art on this one! My first web site, which I built way back in the dark ages of 1994, had a form for people to fill out reviews / comments on my site. I'm sure I could dig up a version of the site from the wayback archive if Amazon would like to go to court over this one. Or they could just cease and decist being pricks and a**holes.
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What kind of rubbish is this? Ah yes, the "utopian" future where security isn't needed because everything is already built so secure that nobody could possibly penetrate the defenses. Jeez... where have I heard this drivel before...?
As long as human beings are involved with something, there will always be "good" humans, and "evil bad" humans trying to undermine the "good" ones. It's as simple as that. To think otherwise is folly.
...cause I sure as hell wouldn't want to use eMule or any other P2P app without PeerGuardian, which at last count was banning over 7 million IP addresses... many of which are in such nefarious States as China and Russia.
You know, I kept hearing that Colbert was a nerd / geek / whatever before watching the interview, and now I gotta question where people got that impression from? He clearly didn't know much about the games he was referring to, or maybe he was just playing dumb... if so, it was stupid, well beneath his level with many of his other guests. Will definitely got MUCH more speaking time than the typical Colbert guest, which is what leads me to believe Steve was simply not able to keep up with Wright at all - and any self-respecting geek would not have had that problem in that situation!
I think Wired is barking up the exact same, wrong, tree, that Diebold and every other manufacturer of voting machines is barking up - namely that they have all the answers.
The solution is very simple: require all electronic voting machines to be open source, and invite all software developers around the world to peer review the code. When that majoriy agrees that a system is secure, then it's ready for use.
I would think you could rig up a second tile with DNA taken from the same source material. This could act as a unit test against mutations in the DNA that might affect the outcome on tile 1. If the mutant genes on the second tile suddenly produce some undesirable outcome, then toss the whole batch and start over again.
Yeay... the thread has devloved into the age-old classic "Driving in your town may be bad, but driving where _I_ live SUCKS ASS!!! These morons don't have a freakin' CLUE man!!!"
:)
Rinse, spin, pick new city, repeat... drivers are idiots EVERYWHERE!!
(especially in NYC where I live!)
This would be a great way for parents to enforce a curfew on their teens... send their cell phones the signal to scream until they get home, and block all calls except to good ol' dear mom and pop.
It beats all the other re-run, re-hashed, and re-apportioned "news" this site l33ches on a daily basis. I often find little to nothing original by the time I end up hitting /. in a given day. Is /. even relevant anymore?
Nope... DTV and TiVo have a reciprocal agreement not to sue each other over patents. DTV still supports the older DTiVo boxes by not deactivating the service, while TiVo doesn't sue DTV. That's my understanding at any rate... get more info at www.tivocommunity.org
Subject says it all... Sony screwed the pooch yet again by completely slamming the doors shut on any efforts to tinker with the PSP by 3rd parties, and requires users to use their propietary memory and disc formats to do anything at all with it. Bottom line - Sony suffers, early adopters suffer, and nobody wins. Brilliant strategy Sony, keep it up and maybe, just maybe, we'll finally have an American electronics company again!!! ;-)
Y'all do realize that Google is just another name for Cyberdyne, right? And Googleplex is just another word for Skynet.
Pitchfork??? Are those whiney snobs even relevant anymore?
$600 is definitely too much considering how likely it is you'll be mugged in the mall parking lot by a gang banging group of g@m3rz after you buy it from GameStop around xmas time. Then you'll be out another $1200 when you buy one from me on eBay cause you only pre-ordered one.
Gee, thanks for that wonderfully insightful economics lesson anybody here could have Wikipedia'd themselves.
No, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express!
Is /. now a couple years behind the current news? Cause I definitely remember reading lots of articles about scientists who can't get grants in New Scientist magazine oh, two years ago. And I doubt that was the first mention of this phenomenon (do do, do do do) either.
What exactly does this do that VMWare doesn't already do, and do better?
Wow, that's actually pretty cool. I use Speakeasy too, and wouldn't mind sharing the connection... what would be nice is if you could control the amount of bandwidth useable by "guest" users vs. "registered" users. I'd probably be much more willing to open up my AP if that were allowed, but as it is, I'm stuck out in the 'burbs, where folks aren't nearly as likely to be strolling down the street in need of an open hotspot.
This isn't the problem... the problem is that the lusers don't even know that there's a lock to begin with!
Plain and simple answer for AVG Free - If you've updated since Jan 16th, you're good to go: http://free.grisoft.com/doc/1
One thing I've heard of recently is local municipalities in the U.S. passing ordinances against photography of certain buildings / statues / other landmarks, or against photography of children in playgrounds, etc. Not sure as to the constitutionality of these laws, but expect to see more of them.
The problem as I see it is the figurehead at the top of this mess we call a "free" country is explicitly of the position that freedom must be sacrificed in the name of security. And the sheep are clearly in agreement as there appears to be little resistance to these laws.
I've heard that the vast majority of Chinese don't even know that anything happened in Tianeman Square. I highly doubt that they realize they've been duped by their own government if they don't even know about one of the most important quashes of free speech in the 20th Century, in their own country no less.
Didn't everybody get the memo that /. is now in syndication?
Wow, even _I_ can claim prior art on this one! My first web site, which I built way back in the dark ages of 1994, had a form for people to fill out reviews / comments on my site. I'm sure I could dig up a version of the site from the wayback archive if Amazon would like to go to court over this one. Or they could just cease and decist being pricks and a**holes.
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