Actually, racketeering is against the law for everyone, not just gangsters. Racketeering laws are usually used against gangsters only because racketeering is usually perpetrated by gangs. But pretty much if anyone's doing it, it's a bad thing.
Whoever modded the above a troll is ignorant of the legislative process. We are not living in a direct democracy. Our elected leaders DO decide a lot of things FOR us. How else do we explain the existence of the IRS?
So what do you want people to do, then, not eat? They kindof have us over a barrel there, and not everyone can afford the extra expense of buying labeled and certified "organic" grown foods.
Store clerks remembered who you were and got to know you on a personal basis, and could do everything this RFID stuff enables total strangers to do for you now. But times have changed and people don't stay in the same job for 40 years and people don't shop at the same place or even live in the same city their whole lives. When that changed, people bemoaned how alienating modernity was.
Maybe this will start to change now that we have high tech eyes watching our every move.
But... it's just off-putting that someone you don't know well has all this information about you. I don't care really if my tailor of some decades of acquaintance knows some personal details about me, like my left leg is shorter than my right leg. I worry, though, when that information get collected into a big system and combined with all sorts of other information from who knows where.
it's the system. If you're going to hook up a 2-node network for demo purposes, you'll be bottlenecked by the storage devices on the computers well before you can show what the network pipe is really capable of.
The only things I can think of inside a computer that can sustain 2.5Gb/s throughput are the front side bus and the AGP slot, assuming you have 4x or better on the AGP. If you're transmitting data, it has to come from somewhere, though, and unless you've got a VERY sizeable RAMdisk on hand, you're not going to impress people with moving files from one place to another -- you'll saturate the drive(s) the data is stored on well before you hit the capacity of the pipe.
2.5Gb/s is good for network backbones right now, and not much else. Well, it's great for anything involving data tranfer, obviously, but it's also overkill and therefore probably costs too much, and therefore not so great. But the performance, certainly, sings.
My best advice? Come up with some kind of network oriented demo that involves a many-node network, the nodes each equipped with very fast UltraSCSI 320 RAID-0 arrays so they can try to saturate the pipe.
This is actually good, because people will come out in droves and vote againt candidates who spam. Clued-in candidates will finally manage to hold office, and utopia will spontaneously erupt in the Western Hemisphere.
And the dream is not the same as reality, that's exactly my point. Yet the dream of blue is really blue.
I'm saying that in a dream a perception of the color blue is still blue. Yet, there's no radiation in your mind that's creating this sense impression.
One need not have a deep understanding of physics in order to replicate perceptions of physical phenomena in their dreams. Indeed, one need not understand how color perceptions happen in our minds as a result of external stimuli at all. Yet, we can still experience the stimuli in a dream.
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If I see the color blue in a dream, where is the radiation?
To my knowledge, nobody has EVER successfully made anything digital tamperproof. DVD players, XBOX'es, Cable modems, Play Stations, all have been hacked. So why on earth do they keep trying?
Because it's not about tamper-proofing, it's about making things tamper-resistant. If they can deter a portion of people from hacking a device, it's considered a win. Some dedicated fraction of a percent may still hack successfully, most people won't, and they're the people they'll continue to make their profit from.
The only arena this isn't true is in copy protection, where defeating copy protection measures once means that the file can be copied infinitely without re-hacking.
Perhaps Andy is a clue. I fed $Andy into the Bat Crime Computer and came up with a a close match to the greek word "Andros," which means "man". So maybe the MyDoom virus was written for the benefit of all mankind.
Unless the GF is of a similar skill level and has the same interest in games, I doubt it'll work.
My GF loves to play Mario Party on my gamecube, but that's about the extent of her interest in gaming. She'll watch me play a little half-life or UT now and then, but usually once I get into it the torrent of swear words puts her off.
I can just imagine getting fragged and accusing her of being a wallhack fag and having that be the end of the relationship...
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Is the computer still your friend in this edition?
Actually, racketeering is against the law for everyone, not just gangsters. Racketeering laws are usually used against gangsters only because racketeering is usually perpetrated by gangs. But pretty much if anyone's doing it, it's a bad thing.
In Soviet Russia, mouse throws YOU!
So clever... It's a good way to cope with all the bulls--t.
True, but that doesn't do anything for people such as myself who don't smoke or play the lottery.
Sounds more like they failed to swap components, not that the swapping of components failed.
Whoever modded the above a troll is ignorant of the legislative process. We are not living in a direct democracy. Our elected leaders DO decide a lot of things FOR us. How else do we explain the existence of the IRS?
In Soviet Russia, Big Broadband is watching YOU!
Someone had to say it, and probably already did. I don't have the time to RTFACs.
So what do you want people to do, then, not eat? They kindof have us over a barrel there, and not everyone can afford the extra expense of buying labeled and certified "organic" grown foods.
It's only a model.
Apple's 23" cinemadisplay will do 1920x1200.
Yeah, well I can remember when it would have been some really big company's mainframe.
First they leak the source code for WIndows, now this! What's the world coming to?
Look out for a bunch of GEOS exploits as soon as some k1dd13$ get their mitts on the code. The shit is going to hit the fan, I'm telling you...
Store clerks remembered who you were and got to know you on a personal basis, and could do everything this RFID stuff enables total strangers to do for you now. But times have changed and people don't stay in the same job for 40 years and people don't shop at the same place or even live in the same city their whole lives. When that changed, people bemoaned how alienating modernity was.
Maybe this will start to change now that we have high tech eyes watching our every move.
But... it's just off-putting that someone you don't know well has all this information about you. I don't care really if my tailor of some decades of acquaintance knows some personal details about me, like my left leg is shorter than my right leg. I worry, though, when that information get collected into a big system and combined with all sorts of other information from who knows where.
it's the system. If you're going to hook up a 2-node network for demo purposes, you'll be bottlenecked by the storage devices on the computers well before you can show what the network pipe is really capable of.
The only things I can think of inside a computer that can sustain 2.5Gb/s throughput are the front side bus and the AGP slot, assuming you have 4x or better on the AGP. If you're transmitting data, it has to come from somewhere, though, and unless you've got a VERY sizeable RAMdisk on hand, you're not going to impress people with moving files from one place to another -- you'll saturate the drive(s) the data is stored on well before you hit the capacity of the pipe.
2.5Gb/s is good for network backbones right now, and not much else. Well, it's great for anything involving data tranfer, obviously, but it's also overkill and therefore probably costs too much, and therefore not so great. But the performance, certainly, sings.
My best advice? Come up with some kind of network oriented demo that involves a many-node network, the nodes each equipped with very fast UltraSCSI 320 RAID-0 arrays so they can try to saturate the pipe.
Check back in 6-18 months. You'll probably be able to buy them out of gumball machines in about 3 years.
This is actually good, because people will come out in droves and vote againt candidates who spam. Clued-in candidates will finally manage to hold office, and utopia will spontaneously erupt in the Western Hemisphere.
Abbot: Hey, I really like that browser you got there, it's something else!
Costello: Yeah, well not anymore. I mean, it used to be. But not anymore.
Abbot: [Pulls out gun and shoots Costello dead.]
Finis.
Test subject in a sleep study laboratory.
But, people keep telling me I take things too literally.
And the dream is not the same as reality, that's exactly my point. Yet the dream of blue is really blue.
I'm saying that in a dream a perception of the color blue is still blue. Yet, there's no radiation in your mind that's creating this sense impression.
One need not have a deep understanding of physics in order to replicate perceptions of physical phenomena in their dreams. Indeed, one need not understand how color perceptions happen in our minds as a result of external stimuli at all. Yet, we can still experience the stimuli in a dream.
If I see the color blue in a dream, where is the radiation?
Because it's not about tamper-proofing, it's about making things tamper-resistant. If they can deter a portion of people from hacking a device, it's considered a win. Some dedicated fraction of a percent may still hack successfully, most people won't, and they're the people they'll continue to make their profit from.
The only arena this isn't true is in copy protection, where defeating copy protection measures once means that the file can be copied infinitely without re-hacking.
Screw waiting for Half-Life 2... I'm holding out for Half-Life Forever.
Perhaps Andy is a clue. I fed $Andy into the Bat Crime Computer and came up with a a close match to the greek word "Andros," which means "man". So maybe the MyDoom virus was written for the benefit of all mankind.
Unless the GF is of a similar skill level and has the same interest in games, I doubt it'll work.
My GF loves to play Mario Party on my gamecube, but that's about the extent of her interest in gaming. She'll watch me play a little half-life or UT now and then, but usually once I get into it the torrent of swear words puts her off.
I can just imagine getting fragged and accusing her of being a wallhack fag and having that be the end of the relationship...