more importantly, they each cost a million dollars. one big blast takes them all out. then it just becomes a war of numbers -- the costs of production. which costs more, the fighters or the nuke that wipes them all out?
"the wars of the future will all be fought with flying robots. but there will be a need for people to build and maintain those robots, and that will be you." (possibly off on some of the text, but mostly correct)
since all my mp3's sit on a hard drive (as opposed to being stored on a RIO or anything like that), my mp3's tend to have a mixture of different bitrates. older rips of mine tend to be 128kbps, more recent ones towards 160 or 192kbps, and mp3's that i've downloaded from various sources vary between 128 to 256. a few are variable-bitrate encodings.
it is by will alone i set my mind in motion
it is by the juice of safu that thoughts acquire speed
the lips acquire stain, the stain becomes a warning
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i was under the impression that the only way IE was standards compliant was by embrace-and-extend a standard, modify it to m$'s liking, and then put out a version of IE that supports m$'s version only. by virtue of that, it would BECOME a standard because web developers want people to be able to see their sites. kind of a cart/horse issue if you ask me... it's backwards. the wrong people are in charge.
the masses don't want source code. they want programs. they don't want to read the code, they just want to get on th' durn internet'n send s'me o' that new-fangled e-mail. they know nothing of standards compliance, and couldn't even hazard a guess at what it means because 'it's one of those computer-people things'. they just want to sit down, browse yahoo, forward stupid jokes on to their equally stupid friends, and play minesweeper.
there is, in all likelihood, far more people out there who *don't* care about open source than there are who do.
sorry, regardless of whether they're just bugs or a f-u to the w3c, i still believe that large corporations value shopping over standards, AOL especially. to imply otherwise is simply ridiculous.
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aren't rz/sz for "receive zmodem" and "send zmodem" commands for use when dialed into a unix machine? that's the only time I've ever used 'em anyway... if you're able to ssh then you're able to ftp, scp, whatever... any of which are almost certainly better solutions than sz/rz.
i don't have a printer at home, but when i do need to print something (like a report or paper) i do two things: first, i find a floppy (not some old aol disk (see my previous comment on the subject)) and put my document to be printed on it; second, i ftp the document up to a net-accessible place. this could be my personal website, my school-provided shell account, my friend's linux box, whatever. the point being that if, for some reason, my floppy gets crunched or spontaneously fails, i can still get the darn file from the net.
(the question that some of you are asking is 'why bother with the floppy then?' the answer has multiple parts: part of it is pure habit, the other part is a reluctance to put all my eggs in one basket. general paranoia i guess, but i haven't been unable to print a document yet, so i guess it works well.:) )
yeah not to mention that the floppy that the student is using is an old aol disk scrounged from the bottom of some desk drawer, and it's been there since aol started sending out the darn things, and that they don't take any care with it... they just throw the darn thing into their bag with a compass (sharp pointy object), some pens and pencils, a few solid books to crush it a bit, and they make sure it goes to the bottom so it'll be sure to make a nice crunch when they throw the bag about on the desks, floor, car, whatever.
and of COURSE it's the MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD TO THEM when it's 3am and they discover they can't print their term paper anymore...
Re:Getting Past the Censorware with Long Ip's
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why not open an ms-dos prompt box (if in windows) and ping domain.tld, watch what ip it tries to ping, and then go back to your web browser and type 'http://' to go there?
i haven't looked at any, but i doubt censorware can block simple ping/nslookup requests.
err, yeah... let me write my own virus def file and then spread it around. it'll include portions of 'win.com' and the office package, so that they are scanned and deleted like the viruses they are.:)
[stupid question time]
the question that comes to my mind is:
you mention that 386-class machines did the routing for ipv4. you mention that today we have better machines that can handle more of a load faster. great. but -- what happens when you increase the load and processing time to work with it by moving to ipv6? (uneducated question alert!) would that throw the *relative* strength of those machines back to being comparable to the 386 class machines routing ipv4? would today's networks suffer somewhat from this?
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hello Ender's Game...
eudas
more importantly, they each cost a million dollars. one big blast takes them all out. then it just becomes a war of numbers -- the costs of production. which costs more, the fighters or the nuke that wipes them all out?
eudas
(from the simpsons)
"the wars of the future will all be fought with flying robots. but there will be a need for people to build and maintain those robots, and that will be you." (possibly off on some of the text, but mostly correct)
eudas
this does not follow the principle of KISS.
eudas
there is no such thing as friendly fire.
eudas
oh, it doesn't mean you're not wasting your life, it just means you're not doing it so blatantly frivolously. :)
eudas
since all my mp3's sit on a hard drive (as opposed to being stored on a RIO or anything like that), my mp3's tend to have a mixture of different bitrates. older rips of mine tend to be 128kbps, more recent ones towards 160 or 192kbps, and mp3's that i've downloaded from various sources vary between 128 to 256. a few are variable-bitrate encodings.
eudas
it is by will alone i set my mind in motion
it is by the juice of safu that thoughts acquire speed
the lips acquire stain, the stain becomes a warning
it is by will alone i set my mind in motion
eudas
"God is not on our side, because he hates idiots also." -- Clint Eastwood (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly)
eudas
...because it destroys freedom with higher efficiency?
eudas
i was under the impression that the only way IE was standards compliant was by embrace-and-extend a standard, modify it to m$'s liking, and then put out a version of IE that supports m$'s version only. by virtue of that, it would BECOME a standard because web developers want people to be able to see their sites. kind of a cart/horse issue if you ask me... it's backwards. the wrong people are in charge.
oh well...
eudas
the masses don't want source code. they want programs. they don't want to read the code, they just want to get on th' durn internet'n send s'me o' that new-fangled e-mail. they know nothing of standards compliance, and couldn't even hazard a guess at what it means because 'it's one of those computer-people things'. they just want to sit down, browse yahoo, forward stupid jokes on to their equally stupid friends, and play minesweeper.
there is, in all likelihood, far more people out there who *don't* care about open source than there are who do.
eudas
sorry, regardless of whether they're just bugs or a f-u to the w3c, i still believe that large corporations value shopping over standards, AOL especially. to imply otherwise is simply ridiculous.
eudas
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$ nslookup slashdot.org
Server: [snip]
Address: [snip]
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: slashdot.org
Address: 64.28.67.48
$ nslookup slashdot.com
Server: [snip]
Address: [snip]
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Address: 64.28.67.48
eudas
do like they did in fight club, pour gasoline in it and wait for them to turn it on in the morning. :)
or something...
eudas
i'm just waiting for whatever disease was rampant in 'johnny mnemonic' (http://us.imdb.com/Title?0113481) to hit...
eudas
aren't rz/sz for "receive zmodem" and "send zmodem" commands for use when dialed into a unix machine? that's the only time I've ever used 'em anyway... if you're able to ssh then you're able to ftp, scp, whatever... any of which are almost certainly better solutions than sz/rz.
correct me if i'm wrong...
eudas
i agree.
:) )
i don't have a printer at home, but when i do need to print something (like a report or paper) i do two things: first, i find a floppy (not some old aol disk (see my previous comment on the subject)) and put my document to be printed on it; second, i ftp the document up to a net-accessible place. this could be my personal website, my school-provided shell account, my friend's linux box, whatever. the point being that if, for some reason, my floppy gets crunched or spontaneously fails, i can still get the darn file from the net.
(the question that some of you are asking is 'why bother with the floppy then?' the answer has multiple parts: part of it is pure habit, the other part is a reluctance to put all my eggs in one basket. general paranoia i guess, but i haven't been unable to print a document yet, so i guess it works well.
eudas
yeah not to mention that the floppy that the student is using is an old aol disk scrounged from the bottom of some desk drawer, and it's been there since aol started sending out the darn things, and that they don't take any care with it... they just throw the darn thing into their bag with a compass (sharp pointy object), some pens and pencils, a few solid books to crush it a bit, and they make sure it goes to the bottom so it'll be sure to make a nice crunch when they throw the bag about on the desks, floor, car, whatever.
and of COURSE it's the MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD TO THEM when it's 3am and they discover they can't print their term paper anymore...
fuckin' amazing, bubba.
eudas
what's scary about this sort of article is that the plotline from 'deus ex' is sounding more plausible every day.
eudas
eudas
why not open an ms-dos prompt box (if in windows) and ping domain.tld, watch what ip it tries to ping, and then go back to your web browser and type 'http://' to go there?
i haven't looked at any, but i doubt censorware can block simple ping/nslookup requests.
eudas
err, yeah... let me write my own virus def file and then spread it around. it'll include portions of 'win.com' and the office package, so that they are scanned and deleted like the viruses they are. :)
eudas
the information wants to be book?
eudas
[stupid question time]
the question that comes to my mind is:
you mention that 386-class machines did the routing for ipv4. you mention that today we have better machines that can handle more of a load faster. great. but -- what happens when you increase the load and processing time to work with it by moving to ipv6? (uneducated question alert!) would that throw the *relative* strength of those machines back to being comparable to the 386 class machines routing ipv4? would today's networks suffer somewhat from this?
eudas