The last time I heard of an inanimate object killing someone, it was a rock that fell off of a cliff. Before that, it was an avalanche. I've never heard of a gun killing anyone.
...that's life. Falling rocks also kill people more often than they kill themselves. In the meantime, please explain how some drivers don't ever hit anybody, and don't ever get hit?
Still sounds like evolution in action to me.
Call it a trojan, but we can make it a virus
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I'd class this as a trojan since it opens your data up to the outside.
If you want to make it a virus, perhaps a two part virus, have it or the other part(back home) scan ebay for items for sale(modifiable pages) owned by the person who's ID you just stole. If they have any such pages, log in and modify them to include the viral code.
Then try to log in to their isp, a few good guesses based on their personal data and I bet more than half have matching passwords. See if they have any home pages, edit them to include the viral code...
One thing never ceases to amaze me when I go to a gun shop or firing range. Everyone always has good manners. It is such a relief after day after day of dealing with dozens of rude, inconsiderate people to go to a place where everyone smiles and makes eye contact when you say hello, says "Please" when they need a favor, "Excuse me" when they need to pass, and "Thank you" afterwards.
People keep to their best behavior when they know it is in their interest not to piss anybody off. That works much better than any legislated politically correct behavior ever will.
>What we need is a new machine which is small, consumes low power, and does floating point like mad.
That is exactly what they are all about.
Even an older model, say a TMS320C3x can do a 32 bit fp multiply _and_ fp add in a single cycle. That's basically 25-50Mflops or >1Mflop/$ on a rather old 50MHz chip.
I once tried and succeeded in running X and Netscape on an AMD 386sx40 with 16MB of RAM(30 pin SIMM style). Anyway, it worked and still does. It took about four minutes to start ns. I use the box to surf sometimes with Netscape being run remotely from a 300MHz box. This is much better as far as performance goes. Usually this happens when the kids have taken over the modern boxes for online games and I can't honestly justify booting them off for 'work'. It happens every other weekend or so. Add it up and you get a working, completely viable, linux based X server that was built from junk parts including an ISA only 386sx, zero cache motherboard, a 100MB disk drive(84MB root and 16MB swap), an ISA NIC and some spare cable for the ethernet to the fast box. I don't even have to mess with ipfwadm/ipchains/ipmasq since all the apps run on the remote box.
Admittedly the picture is not as nice as a 19 incher accellerated at 1600x1200x16 on a 300MHz box with 128K and gigs to spare, but it works and is worthwile.
My dad was computer hopeless. Once my mom and dad shared a computer. After, oh so many situations where my mom left the computer in a working state, and later I would get a call from her about how dad had fowled it up(please come and repair, I will fix dinner for you) we finally broke down and bought him one of his own.
He is getting better, I have not had a repair call in three weeks now...have not gotten one from mom since the split.
>So if you use them, you don't have freedom of choice at all - you place yourself in a situation where you must trust someone else to know what you want to block
This is just the sort of poor thinking and lack of personal responsibility that I was lamenting. Read your own words!
"if you use them, you don't have freedom of choice at all"
Again!
"if you use them, you don't have freedom of choice at all"
There's a very big "IF" right there for all to see. IF you don't trust the product, why use it? Duh! Watch your kids yourself. IF you cannot trust your kids on the 'net, don't leave them alone on the 'net. Duh! None of these things are really that hard to understand. All you have to do is think about it. Apply some effort to achieving a solution rather than whining to the gov or someone else about the problem.
>because they block their critics! That surely is censorship
Not if they do it, and you know that they do it and you still choose to use their product. Even if you don't know that they do it, you should have enough mental capacity to figure out that they might just be motivated to do such a thing so you should uh...let's see, check the logs for records of blocked content, whoa, that's hard to do, time consuming. How about turning off the filter occasionally just to get a whiff of reality every now and then?
>...posters do use them to eliminate opinions they don't like. >I lead the list of the damned and the banned by a wide margin.
If I may summarise for many of the anti-Katz/. posters, it's not your opinion or the content of your posts that is being filtered. It is your 'style' or lack thereof. It is the lack of content that we find wasteful. Expressions like "gas/wind bag", "hot air", "full of it" come easily to mind. These are not expressions of disagreement, they are expressions of dissatisfaction. They are applied to things that are low in value and not considered worthy of attention. This in combination with our value for our time causes many of us to consider you and your stuff as part of the noise rather than the signal. So...we treat your noise just as we treat the noise in our designs, we apply a filter. It's not personal Jon.
Only the weak of mind and knowledge filter dissenting opinions. The strong and literate will gladly engage in a debate/argument/discussion with someone that disagrees, if for no other reasons than simply to learn for themselves or to teach others. Quite often the strong will filter the noise, but they will also be willing to lift the earmuffs/blinders every so often just to make sure that they aren't missing anything.
...learn what "censorship" is. It is the limitation of information by a third party, notably the government. Anything that individuals or private organizations choose to do for or to themselves is just that, freedom of choice.
I choose not to watch Springer. That is not censorship, that is my personal choice. If I could program my tv or remote so that it would automatically skip over what ever channel Springer is on, I would. Again that is my choice. If OTOH, you decide that I can't watch Spinger, that is a different situation entirely. This is where we start getting into trouble with the thick skin idea. I don't have a problem with skipping by boring, stupid, or otherwise useless information flow, but when someone else decides that not only will they skip over something, that I will as well, then we will start having problems.
I just had a major league "discussion" with a co-worker about his efforts to shut down the Marilyn Manson concert that was recently in town. I tried to make it clear that it was fine with me if he chose not to attend the show or to keep his kids away, but he has no responsibility nor authority to make that decision for me or my children. The poor sap just couldn't comprehend the idea.
In this case(transportable digital audio), the best stuff is defined by smallest file size at a given audio quality level. There are other factors that *might* affect the quality rating such as memory or processor needs of the decoder, but these days, almost anyone has enough cpu and ram to handle just about any 2 channel audio imaginable.
Do I want to cross-devel code for the processor embedded in my toaster? Fine, no need to purchase an emulator or special target environment, just load the code and go. Easy to run, easy to debug, really easy to build in-circuit debug features. Let my proc run i960 code in "protected emulation mode" while my "real" os and tools run native.
Want to crack DES? Code it to the hardware. There are many possibilities.
I'll admit that there are trade-offs, but that's life.
Your post comes across with the idea that analog recording and/or reproduction is perfect and this is definitely not true. If you really want to hear a guitar, you have to put your ear in audio range of the sound that comes from the string and body of the instrument. If you include a microphone or anything else in the signal path between the instrument and your ear, you are going to get artifacts.
The fact is, both analog and digital methods can be applied in such a fashion so as to reduce the artifacts to a level that is below human perception. Obviously perception and sensitivity to _any_ distortion varies from human to human, but there is a bottom line below which nothing will be perceived by anybody, *philes included.
The reason that digital is so popular today is simply that it is less expensive to apply digital methods of reproduction in order to achieve a given level of quality.
It is possible to produce good code. Code that does not crash itself or the system. All MMUs do in this respect is provide a convenience for the developer so that he does not have to reboot every time that his still buggy code crashes itself or something else. MMUs do have other redeeming qualities, but in reference to protecting the system from buggy code, it is just a convenience.
With this system residing in flash, it is practically an instant-on or instant-reboot setup anyway.
Besides, nowadays you can write with modern languages that protect you from pointer errors and missing free() calls, see gcj.
They were plenty talkative with me. I admit that I did not have any questions. I just said, "here try doing the socket io like this and how about this for the console?" with working code snips from their code attached. The guy I emailed responded right away and said he'd check it out. Two days later he replied and said thanks, and that they'd incorporate the changes.
Or at least my suggestions even if they didn't use my code. It's up and running here and d.n is down the tubes. Too bad they never got v3 together. It was fun while it lasted.
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The stats that you never see are the ones that show the benefits of "gun freedom".
How many times has an assault been thwarted by an armed citizen?
What stopped the teen school shooting in Arkansas? An armed citizen.
Which states in the US have the lowest rate of crimes with deadly weapons? The ones that have enacted must issue concealed carry permit laws.
Which state in the US has he *lowest* assault crime rate? The one that has *no* gun regulations of any kind.
Which city in Pennsylvania has the *highest* crime rate? The one that excluded itself when the rest of Pennsylvania enacted the concealed carry laws.
Did crime rates fall in the rest of PN after these laws were enacted? Yes. Did crime rates rise in Philadelphia after it excluded itself? Yes.
You figure it out.
The gun is not the problem.
The fork is not the problem.
You the killer, potential or actual, are the problem.
The last time I heard of an inanimate object killing someone, it was a rock that fell off of a cliff. Before that, it was an avalanche. I've never heard of a gun killing anyone.
...that's life. Falling rocks also kill people more often than they kill themselves. In the meantime, please explain how some drivers don't ever hit anybody, and don't ever get hit?
Still sounds like evolution in action to me.
I'd class this as a trojan since it opens your data up to the outside.
If you want to make it a virus, perhaps a two part virus, have it or the other part(back home) scan ebay for items for sale(modifiable pages) owned by the person who's ID you just stole. If they have any such pages, log in and modify them to include the viral code.
Then try to log in to their isp, a few good guesses based on their personal data and I bet more than half have matching passwords. See if they have any home pages, edit them to include the viral code...
One thing never ceases to amaze me when I go to a gun shop or firing range. Everyone always has good manners. It is such a relief after day after day of dealing with dozens of rude, inconsiderate people to go to a place where everyone smiles and makes eye contact when you say hello, says "Please" when they need a favor, "Excuse me" when they need to pass, and "Thank you" afterwards.
People keep to their best behavior when they know it is in their interest not to piss anybody off.
That works much better than any legislated politically correct behavior ever will.
...a hardware store and walk out with a Linux Distro CD, that's world domination.
BTW, the local MicroCenter(Comp USA semi-clone) has boxes of SuSe 6 up front and out in the open. Surprised the fsck out of me.
http://www.afr.com.au/content/990420/inform/inform 4.html
Now who is stealing what?
Since two "perfect"ly capable chess players playing a perfect game would always end up in a draw...boring.
>connect the busses of all of these computers together with something that could handle upwards of 10-20 gigabits
10-20Gbs is easy. I once worked on a project where we connected side-by-side PCs together with SCSI. It worked like a charm.
>You could do hard drives and memory that are directly accessed through this same bus.
Bingo! It was as USB, firewire, etc. are supposed to be. That is, intelligent, fast peripherals and plenty of bandwidth.
>What we need is a new machine which is small, consumes low power, and does floating point like mad.
That is exactly what they are all about.
Even an older model, say a TMS320C3x can do a 32 bit fp multiply _and_ fp add in a single cycle. That's basically 25-50Mflops or >1Mflop/$ on a rather old 50MHz chip.
I once tried and succeeded in running X and Netscape on an AMD 386sx40 with 16MB of RAM(30 pin SIMM style). Anyway, it worked and still does. It took about four minutes to start ns. I use the box to surf sometimes with Netscape being run remotely from a 300MHz box. This is much better as far as performance goes. Usually this happens when the kids have taken over the modern boxes for online games and I can't honestly justify booting them off for 'work'. It happens every other weekend or so. Add it up and you get a working, completely viable, linux based X server that was built from junk parts including an ISA only 386sx, zero cache motherboard, a 100MB disk drive(84MB root and 16MB swap), an ISA NIC and some spare cable for the ethernet to the fast box. I don't even have to mess with ipfwadm/ipchains/ipmasq since all the apps run on the remote box.
Admittedly the picture is not as nice as a 19 incher accellerated at 1600x1200x16 on a 300MHz box with 128K and gigs to spare, but it works and is worthwile.
My dad was computer hopeless. Once my mom and dad shared a computer. After, oh so many situations where my mom left the computer in a working state, and later I would get a call from her about how dad had fowled it up(please come and repair, I will fix dinner for you) we finally broke down and bought him one of his own.
He is getting better, I have not had a repair call in three weeks now...have not gotten one from mom since the split.
>So if you use them, you don't have freedom of choice at all - you place yourself in a situation where you must trust someone else to know what you want to block
This is just the sort of poor thinking and lack of personal responsibility that I was lamenting. Read your own words!
"if you use them, you don't have freedom of choice at all"
Again!
"if you use them, you don't have freedom of choice at all"
There's a very big "IF" right there for all to see. IF you don't trust the product, why use it? Duh! Watch your kids yourself. IF you cannot trust your kids on the 'net, don't leave them alone on the 'net. Duh! None of these things are really that hard to understand. All you have to do is think about it. Apply some effort to achieving a solution rather than whining to the gov or someone else about the problem.
>because they block their critics! That surely is censorship
Not if they do it, and you know that they do it and you still choose to use their product. Even if you don't know that they do it, you should have enough mental capacity to figure out that they might just be motivated to do such a thing so you should uh...let's see, check the logs for records of blocked content, whoa, that's hard to do, time consuming. How about turning off the filter occasionally just to get a whiff of reality every now and then?
It's you.
/. posters, it's not your opinion or the content of your posts that is being filtered. It is your 'style' or lack thereof. It is the lack of content that we find wasteful. Expressions like "gas/wind bag", "hot air", "full of it" come easily to mind. These are not expressions of disagreement, they are expressions of dissatisfaction. They are applied to things that are low in value and not considered worthy of attention.
>...posters do use them to eliminate opinions they don't like.
>I lead the list of the damned and the banned by a wide margin.
If I may summarise for many of the anti-Katz
This in combination with our value for our time causes many of us to consider you and your stuff as part of the noise rather than the signal. So...we treat your noise just as we treat the noise in our designs, we apply a filter. It's not personal Jon.
Only the weak of mind and knowledge filter dissenting opinions. The strong and literate will gladly engage in a debate/argument/discussion with someone that disagrees, if for no other reasons than simply to learn for themselves or to teach others. Quite often the strong will filter the noise, but they will also be willing to lift the earmuffs/blinders every so often just to make sure that they aren't missing anything.
...learn what "censorship" is. It is the limitation of information by a third party, notably the government. Anything that individuals or private organizations choose to do for or to themselves is just that, freedom of choice.
I choose not to watch Springer. That is not censorship, that is my personal choice. If I could program my tv or remote so that it would automatically skip over what ever channel Springer is on, I would. Again that is my choice.
If OTOH, you decide that I can't watch Spinger, that is a different situation entirely. This is where we start getting into trouble with the thick skin idea. I don't have a problem with skipping by boring, stupid, or otherwise useless information flow, but when someone else decides that not only will they skip over something, that I will as well, then we will start having problems.
I just had a major league "discussion" with a co-worker about his efforts to shut down the Marilyn Manson concert that was recently in town. I tried to make it clear that it was fine with me if he chose not to attend the show or to keep his kids away, but he has no responsibility nor authority to make that decision for me or my children. The poor sap just couldn't comprehend the idea.
If they make the best stuff, then why not use it?
In this case(transportable digital audio), the best stuff is defined by smallest file size at a given audio quality level. There are other factors that *might* affect the quality rating such as memory or processor needs of the decoder, but these days, almost anyone has enough cpu and ram to handle just about any 2 channel audio imaginable.
Do I want to cross-devel code for the processor embedded in my toaster? Fine, no need to purchase an emulator or special target environment, just load the code and go. Easy to run, easy to debug, really easy to build in-circuit debug features. Let my proc run i960 code in "protected emulation mode" while my "real" os and tools run native.
Want to crack DES? Code it to the hardware.
There are many possibilities.
I'll admit that there are trade-offs, but that's life.
Your post comes across with the idea that analog recording and/or reproduction is perfect and this is definitely not true. If you really want to hear a guitar, you have to put your ear in audio range of the sound that comes from the string and body of the instrument. If you include a microphone or anything else in the signal path between the instrument and your ear, you are going to get artifacts.
The fact is, both analog and digital methods can be applied in such a fashion so as to reduce the artifacts to a level that is below human perception. Obviously perception and sensitivity to _any_ distortion varies from human to human, but there is a bottom line below which nothing will be perceived by anybody, *philes included.
The reason that digital is so popular today is simply that it is less expensive to apply digital methods of reproduction in order to achieve a given level of quality.
It is possible to produce good code. Code that does not crash itself or the system. All MMUs do in this respect is provide a convenience for the developer so that he does not have to reboot every time that his still buggy code crashes itself or something else. MMUs do have other redeeming qualities, but in reference to protecting the system from buggy code, it is just a convenience.
With this system residing in flash, it is practically an instant-on or instant-reboot setup anyway.
Besides, nowadays you can write with modern languages that protect you from pointer errors and missing free() calls, see gcj.
Zero copy transmits are possible with certain NICs and drivers.
http://huey.jpl.nasa.gov/~spravdo/neat.html
They were plenty talkative with me. I admit that I did not have any questions. I just said, "here try doing the socket io like this and how about this for the console?" with working code snips from their code attached. The guy I emailed responded right away and said he'd check it out. Two days later he replied and said thanks, and that they'd incorporate the changes.
Then I went off to work on something else...
Or at least my suggestions even if they didn't use my code. It's up and running here and d.n is down the tubes. Too bad they never got v3 together. It was fun while it lasted.
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