so do you want him to continue believing it's ok to steal?
take a basic course in social psychology, and you may learn that the first step towards changing an attitude can be to act the role.
it's in his best interest for many reasons (not just impressing parole officers) to change his internalized belief. whatever motivates him to start down this path is fine with me. best of luck to him.
And, FWIW, IRIX is absolutely the least stable Unix I've ever worked with. And I've worked with a few.
Well that's just, like, your opinion man.
I've worked with more than a few Unices also. IRIX has been production-quality stable - as in easily-controlled updates, won't break down under high loads, multiple-year uptimes in production stable for compute or i/o applications.
Check yourself; blanket statements like the above make you sound like a poser, and it borders on trolling.
I hope gollum is somewhat smaller - he is supposed to be atrophied and sinewy thanks to a few hundred years spent brooding underground... but he seems roughly the same size skeletally; which also makes sense since Gollum is a Hobbit.
...SGI is bound to become aware of it. You think that the company that is now charging for their barely-tweaked recompile of Samba is going to ignore the chance to get a few more dollars? Er, wait. On second thought, they probably couldn't afford the lawyers at this point.
what the fuck is wrong with German people?
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To The Pain
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The funniest part was about the idiots who stuck to it because they didn't want to back down in front of an audience. This game will be great at separating showy meatheads from people who listen to their inner Pavlov despite their vanity.
"Yeah, but I didn't know you were going to be giving me electric shocks... just what are you trying to prove here, anyway?"
Surprisingly, there have been so many "bullshit" posts modded up. Read the article, people. Just because your eyes can't discern modulation in a rapidly-changing LED doesn't mean a machine can't. it's like saying "d00d, you can't sniff data from a modem signal, it sounds like static."
Your eyes can't discern discrete changes past, say, 24 Hz (movie frame rate). Data is modulated in the LED in pulses that match the data rate. So to your eye, it appears to be solidly on. To a sensitive solid-state photoreceptor, the changes are discernible (according to the article, at rates up to 10 Mb/s).
Frankly, I'm amazed this wasn't determined to be a problem a long time ago. This is indeed a tangible risk, you naysayers. Passively sniffing a box is a much more subtle way of eavesdropping than cracking open the box or plugging in a new MAC. That flashy data center with the big wire-mesh windows and cipher lock might want to think about some opaque-ish drapes.
I think big displays (re: plasma, DLP & LCD projectors) need to get cheaper before every joe sixpack can have a home theater based on his PC.
But it's almost there. Wireless input is cheap. Home networking is cheap and easy. Add an email/web appliance and broadband in case the screen is tied up with a DVD. Add in that big screen, and you have a workstation you can use while slumped on your sofa (!) that doubles as a home theater. Add xtraceroute to complete the war room-like ambience.
only for 911??
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I wonder if the positional info could be used by the owner of the phone for some purpose - maybe tracking a fleet of drivers realtime or coupled with Wireless Web to provide navigation. There are some neat possibilities here that Sprint could capitalize on.
You can always use Omniremote for Palm OS if you have an infrared-enabled Palm. Even if you have one of the older models with relatively weak IR, you can purchase a strong IR module. The software is pretty cheap.
see the website.
Floppies are useful as a ubiquitous transfer medium more than as a storage solution. If you have USB, you don't need some gimmicky storage device... you need a cable.
I sympathize somewhat... I just got an X20 and to get a floppy or extra drive bay (CD/HDD/DVD) you need to buy the Ultrabase (mini-docking station). The Ultrabase on the X20 defeats the purpose of the machine. It's designed to be portable, and the addition of the Ultrabase makes it too bulky. Also, you can't connect the floppy via a cable. It's built into the UBase. Only 1 PCMCIA slot too. All this suggests using USB for almost everything, which in turn means it's really meant for a plug-and-play-centric OS. Hence the shiny 2000/98 sticker emblazoned on the front.
"Real" sigs aren't much better. The analysis used by experts is an art as much as a science, and notaries still can be untrustworthy. And the media used could allow easy transfer or duplication (this is the main reason digital signatures are not real signatures... "digital" is a synonym for "precisely defined" and by its very nature easy to duplicate).
This is pure semantics. Of course signatures aren't unequivocal, absolute proof of anything, especially most digital signatures. There is no such thing as 100% proof. It's just a matter of how difficult it is to copy. A written signature is digital in a sense - an arrangement of particles that could be duplicated with the right technology. Can anyone say "replicator?" Any signature is merely evidence, not proof.
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3Dwm Updates
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It's funny that someone would think it wasteful to have 3D hardware supporting a WM, while at the same time others buy card after card to keep up with the requirements of various games.
This is something that actually could serve a more general, practical purpose than a 3d game engine: 3D visualization of workspace data. This, in my opinion, is a better justification for a hardware purchase than Q3.
It may be true that a greater degree of accuracy than usual is required for spaceflight, but a quadrillion places? I really, really doubt that that type of precision has any practical use in spaceflight, given the current precision of the manufacturing methods used.
A while back (4+ years??) I started using the academic version. The cool thing about that was that it compiled on all the platforms I needed it for (R4k, PA-RISC, SPARC).
Does the new open source incarnation of Tripwire port easily, I wonder? If not, one of it's coolest characteristics is missing. The original point of Tripwire was the creation of a working, widely-available integrity checker. Marketing a good idea is fine, but it sucks that portability might be taking a back seat to the targeting of specific markets. That seems to undermine the original intent a bit. It's cool that they are releasing the source, but it would be a lot cooler if they released the source trees for all supported platforms.
Just switching back to the old version would suck. There is no encryption or signing done on the database (where the checksums & attribute data are stored). You had to use read-only media to store the database if you were using it as an anti-cracker tool.
For those of you who prefer RTS, and somehow missed its release, Star Trek Armada by Activision is a Trek game that doesn't suck. Out of the box, it's got a decent game engine, cool (but not ground-breaking) graphics, and a good trek feel.
However, the races are balanced to the point of being boring. Every item in any race has an exact functional analog in the others, just with a different skin. That's where the mod community comes in - the game is really easy to mess around with, and some neat possibilities exist.
I don't know if it (or any game) is worth the money for 1 hour a week of mindless fun until you tire of it... but armada is worth toying with at least once or twice.
Since time travel may be invented by then, I tried to invite the recipients over for dinner tonight. I provided coordinates in space and time (and my apartment number). Assuming they are carbon-based, there should be plenty to eat.
But alas, the form would not submit. It said my input was wrong, but it didn't say why. I triple-checked everything and it still doesn't work. I wonder what language they are using to process the form date - it appears to have a function to check for and prevent causality paradoxes.
This site only lasted a month before public scrutiny began to threaten it. How long was Napster running before it was seriously legally threatened?:)
Why is this such a clear-cut case of infringement on the rights over intellectual property, while the Napster snafu was/is not? It seems like the public at-large feels entitled to music since it is created as a product, while your average doctorate thesis is not expected, by the author to become a commodity. Thoughts?
How much access to the entire span of web sites should be measured against an acceptable rate of failure to prevent browsing of porn. There are two ultimate approaches - 1) allow all sites/URLs except those you have indexed (either yourself or a ready-made index. 2) principle of least privilege. block all sites/URLs except those you've deemed necessary.
2) is a real hassle - an administrative nightmare. but the chances of porn popping up are near zero.
1) isn't so bad because there are already lists of sites with 'bad' content, so you have a baseline - but this still requires maintenance and is not fail-proof. Pron will be seen by the kiddies occasionally.
No, I don't know where to find such a pron filter index off the top of my head, but they exist.
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take a basic course in social psychology, and you may learn that the first step towards changing an attitude can be to act the role.
it's in his best interest for many reasons (not just impressing parole officers) to change his internalized belief. whatever motivates him to start down this path is fine with me. best of luck to him.
Well that's just, like, your opinion man.
I've worked with more than a few Unices also. IRIX has been production-quality stable - as in easily-controlled updates, won't break down under high loads, multiple-year uptimes in production stable for compute or i/o applications.
Check yourself; blanket statements like the above make you sound like a poser, and it borders on trolling.
I hope gollum is somewhat smaller - he is supposed to be atrophied and sinewy thanks to a few hundred years spent brooding underground... but he seems roughly the same size skeletally; which also makes sense since Gollum is a Hobbit.
bw
RTFA.
DVD has a long and sordid history. Better get the ball rolling on this NOW, while we don't quite need it.
bw
Try copying a 9 GB movie to a 4.7 GB DVD-R.
Oops, looks like you're wrong. Shouldn't all computer geeks remember the 640K DOS debacle?
bw
...SGI is bound to become aware of it. You think that the company that is now charging for their barely-tweaked recompile of Samba is going to ignore the chance to get a few more dollars? Er, wait. On second thought, they probably couldn't afford the lawyers at this point.
The funniest part was about the idiots who stuck to it because they didn't want to back down in front of an audience. This game will be great at separating showy meatheads from people who listen to their inner Pavlov despite their vanity.
"Yeah, but I didn't know you were going to be giving me electric shocks... just what are you trying to prove here, anyway?"
Indeed.
Your eyes can't discern discrete changes past, say, 24 Hz (movie frame rate). Data is modulated in the LED in pulses that match the data rate. So to your eye, it appears to be solidly on. To a sensitive solid-state photoreceptor, the changes are discernible (according to the article, at rates up to 10 Mb/s).
Frankly, I'm amazed this wasn't determined to be a problem a long time ago. This is indeed a tangible risk, you naysayers. Passively sniffing a box is a much more subtle way of eavesdropping than cracking open the box or plugging in a new MAC. That flashy data center with the big wire-mesh windows and cipher lock might want to think about some opaque-ish drapes.
Any piece of software should not be expected to be inherently secure.
You can't sue the builder of a house if the owner doesn't but locks and gets robbed and sodomized.
The idea is preposterous.
But it's almost there. Wireless input is cheap. Home networking is cheap and easy. Add an email/web appliance and broadband in case the screen is tied up with a DVD. Add in that big screen, and you have a workstation you can use while slumped on your sofa (!) that doubles as a home theater. Add xtraceroute to complete the war room-like ambience.
I wonder if the positional info could be used by the owner of the phone for some purpose - maybe tracking a fleet of drivers realtime or coupled with Wireless Web to provide navigation. There are some neat possibilities here that Sprint could capitalize on.
You can always use Omniremote for Palm OS if you have an infrared-enabled Palm. Even if you have one of the older models with relatively weak IR, you can purchase a strong IR module. The software is pretty cheap.
see the website.
Apparently not. The article says that 1 TB == 1000 GB. Last I checked, this wasn't the case.
1 TB = 1024 GB = 2 E40
Ditto for 2 PB = 2000 TB. Nope. bw
Floppies are useful as a ubiquitous transfer medium more than as a storage solution. If you have USB, you don't need some gimmicky storage device... you need a cable. I sympathize somewhat... I just got an X20 and to get a floppy or extra drive bay (CD/HDD/DVD) you need to buy the Ultrabase (mini-docking station). The Ultrabase on the X20 defeats the purpose of the machine. It's designed to be portable, and the addition of the Ultrabase makes it too bulky. Also, you can't connect the floppy via a cable. It's built into the UBase. Only 1 PCMCIA slot too. All this suggests using USB for almost everything, which in turn means it's really meant for a plug-and-play-centric OS. Hence the shiny 2000/98 sticker emblazoned on the front.
This is pure semantics. Of course signatures aren't unequivocal, absolute proof of anything, especially most digital signatures. There is no such thing as 100% proof. It's just a matter of how difficult it is to copy. A written signature is digital in a sense - an arrangement of particles that could be duplicated with the right technology. Can anyone say "replicator?" Any signature is merely evidence, not proof.
This is something that actually could serve a more general, practical purpose than a 3d game engine: 3D visualization of workspace data. This, in my opinion, is a better justification for a hardware purchase than Q3.
It may be true that a greater degree of accuracy than usual is required for spaceflight, but a quadrillion places? I really, really doubt that that type of precision has any practical use in spaceflight, given the current precision of the manufacturing methods used.
This guy's making a name for himself. I hope some good samaritan keeps him away from synagogues and power drills.
A while back (4+ years??) I started using the academic version. The cool thing about that was that it compiled on all the platforms I needed it for (R4k, PA-RISC, SPARC). Does the new open source incarnation of Tripwire port easily, I wonder? If not, one of it's coolest characteristics is missing. The original point of Tripwire was the creation of a working, widely-available integrity checker. Marketing a good idea is fine, but it sucks that portability might be taking a back seat to the targeting of specific markets. That seems to undermine the original intent a bit. It's cool that they are releasing the source, but it would be a lot cooler if they released the source trees for all supported platforms. Just switching back to the old version would suck. There is no encryption or signing done on the database (where the checksums & attribute data are stored). You had to use read-only media to store the database if you were using it as an anti-cracker tool.
Ceres is also spherical. It also orbits a star "independently." That mass requirement seems pretty arbitrary.
...would be to display the strategy for "operation: get behind the darkies."
However, the races are balanced to the point of being boring. Every item in any race has an exact functional analog in the others, just with a different skin. That's where the mod community comes in - the game is really easy to mess around with, and some neat possibilities exist.
I don't know if it (or any game) is worth the money for 1 hour a week of mindless fun until you tire of it... but armada is worth toying with at least once or twice.
Since time travel may be invented by then, I tried to invite the recipients over for dinner tonight. I provided coordinates in space and time (and my apartment number). Assuming they are carbon-based, there should be plenty to eat.
But alas, the form would not submit. It said my input was wrong, but it didn't say why. I triple-checked everything and it still doesn't work. I wonder what language they are using to process the form date - it appears to have a function to check for and prevent causality paradoxes.
Shit. Dining alone AGAIN.
This site only lasted a month before public scrutiny began to threaten it. How long was Napster running before it was seriously legally threatened? :)
Why is this such a clear-cut case of infringement on the rights over intellectual property, while the Napster snafu was/is not? It seems like the public at-large feels entitled to music since it is created as a product, while your average doctorate thesis is not expected, by the author to become a commodity. Thoughts?
How much access to the entire span of web sites should be measured against an acceptable rate of failure to prevent browsing of porn. There are two ultimate approaches - 1) allow all sites/URLs except those you have indexed (either yourself or a ready-made index. 2) principle of least privilege. block all sites/URLs except those you've deemed necessary.
2) is a real hassle - an administrative nightmare. but the chances of porn popping up are near zero.
1) isn't so bad because there are already lists of sites with 'bad' content, so you have a baseline - but this still requires maintenance and is not fail-proof. Pron will be seen by the kiddies occasionally. No, I don't know where to find such a pron filter index off the top of my head, but they exist.