...to bring down a corporate network. Get a cheap PC (or even a Sega Dreamcast with a network adaptor), and hook it up inside some out-of-the-way closet in a company, and have it search for copyrighted mp3's, and periodically download them. Then the Hatch-bot sees the traffic, and sends the "blow-up" message to the company's router. Poof! really angry company.
Handwriting experts fear that the wild popularity of e-mail, instant messages and other electronic communication, particularly among kids, could erase cursive within a few decades.
There is only one reason that they fear this: Soon, everyone will realize just how pointless a life as a handwriting expert is.
Drive down the highway at 65 mph, then drop a foam packing peanut out the window. Notice that it decelerates to zero (relative to the ground) in a second or so, and that's only with 65mph wind pressing against it.
Now, imagine the same thiong, only at 1000 mph, the foam would slow down to zero in a tiny fraction of a second
it seems to me that with the limited number of varying mac processors out there that it would be a much better deal if the mac portage would just install a binary that was precompiled for your particular processor
There is still something to be said for compiling from source, even on a platform as homogenous as the mac. There are significant differences between the G3 and G4, and even among various G3s and G4s. The variety of optimal optimization settings will only increase if/when Apple introduces PPC970-based Macs (crossing fingers).
i hope mac users know what they are getting into with this one.
I would say that any mac user downloading a CLI-based package management tool, probably knows what they are getting in to.
the technically correct plural form of "Virus" is "Viri"
Errr! Wrong.
From the OED:
Virus
b Pl. viruses. An infectious organism that is usu. submicroscopic, can multiply only inside certain living host cells (in many cases causing disease) and is now understood to be a non-cellular structure lacking any intrinsic metabolism and usually comprising a DNA or RNA core inside a protein coat (see also quot. 1977). [ Formerly referred to as filterable viruses, their first distinguishing characteristic being the ability to pass through filters that retained bacteria. ]
On the other hand, "viri" is the Latin nominative plural of "vir" (i.e. man). In Latin, there is no plural for virus (just as in English, there is no plural for sheep).
No, if I kill someone because I dislike them, my intention is to kill them, plain and simple. If I kill them in defence, I don't intend to kill them, I only intend to make them stop threatening whatever it is I'm defending.
In the former, the intent is to kill, in the latter, the intent is to preserve my life; the killing is only a means to that end.
Likewise, if these guys installed a hard-disk erasing program, KNOWING that infected computers would download and run it without the user even being aware of it, it would be a crime
They didn't install anything on anyone's machine. They put something on a website. End of story.
Good intention does not turn an illegal act into something legal.
Yes it does, if I kill someone because I dislike them, that's murder. If I kill them because they were trying to kill me, that's self-defence. The only difference here is my intent.
If you said something on your site like "please do not link to this page in a slashdot article", then they very well could be held liable
So, you're saying that I could put "please do not likn to my site", and then sue anyone who did? I doubt it.
They'll just have to rely on NAT like the rest of us do.
That actually makes a lot of sense, have a huge router per planet, with NAT, that batches the outgoing TCP/IP packets into large (i.e. multi-gigabyte) packets, which are split back into their TCP/IP packets at the receiving end on some other planet. That way, the effects of latencies measured in hours on the actual throughput could be minimized.
I have no children. Why is it my responsibility to help raise someone else's snot-nosed little brats. When I have children, it will be my responsibility, and that of their mother, to raise them, and no one else's.
It's called truth in advertising. If I buy something, and get it home only to find that what is inside the box is not what was advertised on the outside of the box, I am entitled to my money back.
If a jewel case, has the Compact Disc logo on it, I should be able to assume that it contains a Compact Disc (duh!). Copy-protected "CD"'s are by definition, not Compact Discs. It should say so on the packaging, plain and simple.
I always thought lenses were only used for optical things.. they can be used for waves too?
The only difference between radio, microwaves, x-rays, gamma rays and visible light is the wave length. They are all electromagnetic radiation, humans just tend to think that light is somehow special or different because we can see it.
Most of that 51 MB is the iPod Software Updater application itself (i.e. it goes on your Mac's HD, and not on the iPod). Also, remember that the iPod's firmware is itself 32 MB.
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My gut feeling is that we're headed that way. I'm sure that Steve is trying to push the XServe to a point where he can use them at Pixar.
...to bring down a corporate network. Get a cheap PC (or even a Sega Dreamcast with a network adaptor), and hook it up inside some out-of-the-way closet in a company, and have it search for copyrighted mp3's, and periodically download them. Then the Hatch-bot sees the traffic, and sends the "blow-up" message to the company's router. Poof! really angry company.
Simple, if you're in a car accident, and you, say, break an arm, stick your arm in the replicator box, and press the button marked "restore backup"
... You do make nightly backups, don't you?
Nowhere on that page does Apple claim that OSX is UNIX, they only say that it is "UNIX-based", and that it has "The power of UNIX".
... I'll gladly take the $43,000 off their hands.
Drive down the highway at 65 mph, then drop a foam packing peanut out the window. Notice that it decelerates to zero (relative to the ground) in a second or so, and that's only with 65mph wind pressing against it.
Now, imagine the same thiong, only at 1000 mph, the foam would slow down to zero in a tiny fraction of a second
"Simpsons did it!"
There is still something to be said for compiling from source, even on a platform as homogenous as the mac. There are significant differences between the G3 and G4, and even among various G3s and G4s. The variety of optimal optimization settings will only increase if/when Apple introduces PPC970-based Macs (crossing fingers).
I would say that any mac user downloading a CLI-based package management tool, probably knows what they are getting in to.
Errr! Wrong.
From the OED:
On the other hand, "viri" is the Latin nominative plural of "vir" (i.e. man). In Latin, there is no plural for virus (just as in English, there is no plural for sheep).
Umm, the metric system was invented during the French Revolution (i.e. 1790). So, let's look at tihs again, this time without the idiot glasses:
USA - 227 Years old
Metric System - 213 Years old
Looks to me like the US is older
No, if I kill someone because I dislike them, my intention is to kill them, plain and simple. If I kill them in defence, I don't intend to kill them, I only intend to make them stop threatening whatever it is I'm defending.
In the former, the intent is to kill, in the latter, the intent is to preserve my life; the killing is only a means to that end.
They didn't install anything on anyone's machine. They put something on a website. End of story.
Yes it does, if I kill someone because I dislike them, that's murder. If I kill them because they were trying to kill me, that's self-defence. The only difference here is my intent.
The computers running /. aren't yours, and you just accessed them to post that message, so by your own words, you just broke the law.
I have no children. Why is it my responsibility to help raise someone else's snot-nosed little brats. When I have children, it will be my responsibility, and that of their mother, to raise them, and no one else's.
I'll stick with the one and only dong I have now, thank you very much. :)
DUH, NAT conceals "the existence or place of origin or destination of any communication".
It's called truth in advertising. If I buy something, and get it home only to find that what is inside the box is not what was advertised on the outside of the box, I am entitled to my money back. If a jewel case, has the Compact Disc logo on it, I should be able to assume that it contains a Compact Disc (duh!). Copy-protected "CD"'s are by definition, not Compact Discs. It should say so on the packaging, plain and simple.
The only difference between radio, microwaves, x-rays, gamma rays and visible light is the wave length. They are all electromagnetic radiation, humans just tend to think that light is somehow special or different because we can see it.
It just sits there, but it's not hard to remove if you want to (it's in "/Applications/Utilities/iPod Software 1.2.6 Updater").
Most of that 51 MB is the iPod Software Updater application itself (i.e. it goes on your Mac's HD, and not on the iPod). Also, remember that the iPod's firmware is itself 32 MB.
Well, #2 pretty much rules out everything in our solar system :)
And #3 rules out all of the gas giants, as well as Mars.