We're not going to run out of phone numbers, get real! We already have a usable range of 6.4 billion numbers which takes into consideration the legacy rule where a prefix or areacode can't start with 0 or 1. That's just for the american system. France uses 8 digits, as well as a few other European countries. Now logically if that's not enough, well maybe some people should have their excess lines disconnected and returned into the pool of available numbers. Breaking every legacy phone dialing system and confusing the hell out of senior citizens and all-ages of retards isn't quite my idea of an enhancement.
JonKatz looks like too much of an ubergenius-wannabe to ever 'waste' his time with videogames when he could be studying nuclear science, retropsychology, quantum physics and of course buzzonics (the art of taking a single tiny bit of information and writing it up to 4 pages of flashy intelligent-looking words).
What I'd like to see when the games come back around is a beowulf cluster of tv tuners plugged on every possible olypic stream in the world, retransmitting it all over the net. We (in the broad sense) need to gather and build something huge, something that blows the 'official' media outlets out of the water, providing live video and commentary, as well as up-to-the-minute stats and rankings, to show the IOC what a foolish decision they've made. I personally don't give a fnarg's ass about the olympics. Hypercommercial clownery that encourages brainwashed high-performance meatheads isn't exactly my interpretation of entertainment, especially when their feats and prowesses have nothing to do with normal human activity and survival. Pole vaulting isn't exactly something you'd do outside the scope of olympic competition. My 2 canadian cents.
That text is full of religious-war content.. FreeBSD vs Linux.. DeCSS vs Speedripper.. Linux vs everything else.. GPL this, Linus that.. puh-leeze! Quit the slander. This is of help to no one.
With the ever-growing masses of ignoramuses getting cable and home DSL, just stop and ask them "why are you switching to cable (you retarded aoler)?" and they'll answer "For mp3's, warez, movies and porn". The other half of the problem is that the ISP's don't want to spend bazillions of dollars upgrading and extending their fragile little networks. They just want to cash in on the added subscribers and tell them "Well it's faster than 9600 baud, which is the highest speed the phone company guarantees". I get 16kb upstream (but more than enough downstream - avg 350kb/sec), that amounts to about 1 megabyte per minute. Add a little cynism and I'd be better off burning a cd and mailing it home than trying to ftp it. Why are things like this ? because these retarded ISP's need some way to impose their unjustified 10x price hike for commercial access (which really isn't commercial quality to begin with).
Let me explain this with a metaphor : car sales. Say you have an old treacherous Toyota salesman with two brands of cars on his lot. One is the economy model, it's a V4 engine and no extras. The other is the luxury model, which is a V4 engine with gold-plated spark plugs and automatic everything. It's the same crap with better spark plugs that give you a 4% increase in raw horsepower (which will equate to cleaner gas consumption that might register on high-end monitoring gear). However the luxury model costs twice as much as the economy model. So you tell the guy "Hey! This is the same car. I'll just buy the economy model and add power windows, and buy the spark plugs at a garage on my way home.". He politely replies "You can't do that. If you buy this car, you'll need to sign this EUA that strictly forbids you to use better spark plugs. If you do, we'll charge you the difference for the luxury model."
That's what ISP's do. If you want the slightly faster pipe and higher-quality bullshit when you call tech support, you pay the huge bucks for their so-called "commercial" package. If you just take the home package and try to use it like a commercial pipe and they find out, they call it a "breach of license" and the law allows them to charge you full price or sue you for fraud, whichever is more rewarding to them. And now with all those nifty little backstabbing finely-printed DMCA clauses, they can legally laugh at you when you sign their horrible service contract that includes "I will not hold MoroNet liable for any inconvenience or interruptions encountered during the use, misuse or inability to use the service." and "MoroNet retains the right to revoke service to any entity who is suspected to be abusing the network and/or related hardware and software." Which means that although you pay them every month, they are absolutely not obligated to give you anything in return. It's just a mere "coincidence" that they grant you an IP address.
"and, optionally, the activation of firewalling or launch of denial-of-service attacks intended to crash the spambot's machine"
IANAL, but last I heard, "denial-of-service" was a wonderful way to get sued, especially in this day and age where words have more weight than actions. This brings up the eternal problem of the criminal suing the innocent in order to gain fame. Definitely not a good idea when spam is involved.
Hey hey pull that stick out of your ass. The problem here isn't the government.. I work here dammit! Yes we do get things done in reasonable time frames. The problem lies with the cable company or phone company. These guys are huge corporations and dealing with them is touchy. It's easy to bitch and yell at a phone clerk when you're the one paying the bill every month, but when such complaints have to go through the gov't chain, the end result is devoid of aggression and typicalls ends up with a signed letter saying "We received xyz complaints in the past 3 months. Please do something or else we'll have to send you another letter". You just can't threaten government-assisted monopolies when you ARE the government.
Great.. now i'll have to go through the gov't to file a complaint against Videotron's crappy cable service. More paperwork, more bullshit, more downtime.
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Fact : Napster itself also has multiple servers that share no common link, as well as most other networked services. Everquest has multiple servers to share the load (I wouldn't want to see 60k players on the same server, even if it were a 32-box beowulf cluster - besides, it would be too crowded). There are simply too many clients in the world to have them all hammer the same box and the same pipe. It's a nuisance perhaps, but it is also a Good Thing (tm) since it inherently provides redundancy. One server goes down, you just point your client software to another server.. no single point of failure.
Yeah.. so ? Sue the FBI calling them unscrupulous fraud artists ? No go.. because 1. They already know. 2. They can subpoena you for your password. and finally 3. Anyone talking against the FBI gets 'taken care of' quickly. I see the FBI as the inverse but not opposite of Hells Angels.. because they work in exactly the same ways, but with different business models.
Your example is merely pointing out the mediocrity of most VB coders. It's trivial to seek a file backwards, but VB coders aren't taught to think, they're taught to code, rather to cut/paste code and change variable names and whitespace to hide their plagiarism.
"The commission was created by Congress in the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2000 and is headed by Rep. Porter Goss, who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Bob Kerrey, who until recently was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee."
But why would you risk yourself in storing the complete "works" of Metallica on a DVD ? You'd open yourself to lawsuits from both the RIAA *and* the MPAA =)
Well then I can't say anything about/.ing on the throne (aside from being quite overkill), but for grocery lists I find that a 20$ planner from RadioSmack does the job just fine. That's 20$ Canadian! Sure, it's practically useless for anything else, but then again it does what it's designed for. These touchpad things aren't really designed for anything except raking in some forced cash in AOL's deep pockets. If you want to make grocery lists, get a cheap planner. If you want to look like an important, rich ignorant asshole, get a Palmpilot and flash it around. If you want a portable PC, get a laptop.. but for the love of fnarg, don't go for anything in-between. You don't _need_ to be online every second of the day.
That 5 years to market might be also a safety measure. Why ? Because no video card on the market right now can handle that many pixels in 2D yet. At their rough 9 megapixels, that means 36mb per screenpage for full resolution. Any game will therefore require at least 72mb for double-buffering.. more for 3D. Lastly, can you imagine the abusive CPU load required to ferry that many pixels from system ram to video ram ? Next thing you'll know, Internet Explorer will be using offscreen video ram for its browser cache since it will surely require at least 128mb onboard. Just plain nuts!
The article mentions that the TouchPad is planned to hit the market at 599$. 600 bucks for a stupid little web browsing thing ? Any trained gerbil could build a REAL PC for that price. Any midrange PC would be better than a dead-end proprietary device. An AMD K6-2-500 can be built for roughly the same price, but you'll be able to do much more than simple web browsing and email with it. 64mb ram, 10gb hard drive, sound, modem, lan, speakers, cdrom, monitor.. a complete entry-level PC for 600$ or less.
This seems like a nice little concept, but here's something for you paranoid cypherpunks out there. Let's say you actually buy that stupid "Who let the dogs out" cd with this service, what do you think will happen when their next album comes out, or any similar band, or any band whose promoter sucked off the radio station's manager ? In ordering the cd, you've given them your name, address, but most importantly your *cell phone number!* Now they can call you anwhere, anytime to tele-harass you. They will manage to annoy you at the worst possible time (imagine being in a meeting and you answer your cell thinking it's important, only to end up stuck arguing with a stupid telemarketer who just won't give up - watch your executive reputation go through the basement). If you really want to buy whatever top40 crap's playing on the radio, just listen to the announcer when he/she says the title and group and stop by the mall to buy it. Cheaper, safer, and anonymous. Just tell them your personal info is none of their fucking business and they don't need it to sell you the damned cd. Something you just can't do on the phone when shipping is involved.
This looks like a direct clone of the Empeg car player that's been on the market for years now. Although the competition could be beneficial in terms of price slashing, it's nothing really new. Just a new name jumping into the game in progress. Why not just put an old P133 in your car trunk ? Removable IDE racks n'stuff.. make your own LCD and control panel.. more fun =)
The quick solution if you have a PS/2 mouse is to crank up the refresh rate of your mouse, but the downside of this is that it severely hogs down your system. If you crank it up to 100 or 200, the mouse will be quite fluid but you'll also notice that since the PS/2 port isn't polled but rather runs on an IRQ, it also taxes your cpu much more since it will be switching context 5 times more frequently than the default.. now it just so happens that context switches are one of the slowest things to execute on an x86 cpu so even on an 800mhz box it can be quite noticeable when anything else is being animated at the same time. Just try it out by dragging a window around your desktop and you'll notice that the faster you drag it, the jumpier it will get because the mouse is sending more interrupt requests to the cpu. Very technical but my honest suggestion is to get a USB mouse:)
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We're not going to run out of phone numbers, get real! We already have a usable range of 6.4 billion numbers which takes into consideration the legacy rule where a prefix or areacode can't start with 0 or 1. That's just for the american system. France uses 8 digits, as well as a few other European countries. Now logically if that's not enough, well maybe some people should have their excess lines disconnected and returned into the pool of available numbers. Breaking every legacy phone dialing system and confusing the hell out of senior citizens and all-ages of retards isn't quite my idea of an enhancement.
JonKatz looks like too much of an ubergenius-wannabe to ever 'waste' his time with videogames when he could be studying nuclear science, retropsychology, quantum physics and of course buzzonics (the art of taking a single tiny bit of information and writing it up to 4 pages of flashy intelligent-looking words).
What I'd like to see when the games come back around is a beowulf cluster of tv tuners plugged on every possible olypic stream in the world, retransmitting it all over the net. We (in the broad sense) need to gather and build something huge, something that blows the 'official' media outlets out of the water, providing live video and commentary, as well as up-to-the-minute stats and rankings, to show the IOC what a foolish decision they've made. I personally don't give a fnarg's ass about the olympics. Hypercommercial clownery that encourages brainwashed high-performance meatheads isn't exactly my interpretation of entertainment, especially when their feats and prowesses have nothing to do with normal human activity and survival. Pole vaulting isn't exactly something you'd do outside the scope of olympic competition. My 2 canadian cents.
That text is full of religious-war content.. FreeBSD vs Linux.. DeCSS vs Speedripper.. Linux vs everything else.. GPL this, Linus that.. puh-leeze! Quit the slander. This is of help to no one.
I elect the Furby for president!
With the ever-growing masses of ignoramuses getting cable and home DSL, just stop and ask them "why are you switching to cable (you retarded aoler)?" and they'll answer "For mp3's, warez, movies and porn". The other half of the problem is that the ISP's don't want to spend bazillions of dollars upgrading and extending their fragile little networks. They just want to cash in on the added subscribers and tell them "Well it's faster than 9600 baud, which is the highest speed the phone company guarantees". I get 16kb upstream (but more than enough downstream - avg 350kb/sec), that amounts to about 1 megabyte per minute. Add a little cynism and I'd be better off burning a cd and mailing it home than trying to ftp it. Why are things like this ? because these retarded ISP's need some way to impose their unjustified 10x price hike for commercial access (which really isn't commercial quality to begin with).
Let me explain this with a metaphor : car sales. Say you have an old treacherous Toyota salesman with two brands of cars on his lot. One is the economy model, it's a V4 engine and no extras. The other is the luxury model, which is a V4 engine with gold-plated spark plugs and automatic everything. It's the same crap with better spark plugs that give you a 4% increase in raw horsepower (which will equate to cleaner gas consumption that might register on high-end monitoring gear). However the luxury model costs twice as much as the economy model. So you tell the guy "Hey! This is the same car. I'll just buy the economy model and add power windows, and buy the spark plugs at a garage on my way home.". He politely replies "You can't do that. If you buy this car, you'll need to sign this EUA that strictly forbids you to use better spark plugs. If you do, we'll charge you the difference for the luxury model."
That's what ISP's do. If you want the slightly faster pipe and higher-quality bullshit when you call tech support, you pay the huge bucks for their so-called "commercial" package. If you just take the home package and try to use it like a commercial pipe and they find out, they call it a "breach of license" and the law allows them to charge you full price or sue you for fraud, whichever is more rewarding to them. And now with all those nifty little backstabbing finely-printed DMCA clauses, they can legally laugh at you when you sign their horrible service contract that includes "I will not hold MoroNet liable for any inconvenience or interruptions encountered during the use, misuse or inability to use the service." and "MoroNet retains the right to revoke service to any entity who is suspected to be abusing the network and/or related hardware and software." Which means that although you pay them every month, they are absolutely not obligated to give you anything in return. It's just a mere "coincidence" that they grant you an IP address.
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"and, optionally, the activation of firewalling or launch of denial-of-service attacks intended to crash the spambot's machine"
IANAL, but last I heard, "denial-of-service" was a wonderful way to get sued, especially in this day and age where words have more weight than actions. This brings up the eternal problem of the criminal suing the innocent in order to gain fame. Definitely not a good idea when spam is involved.
Hey hey pull that stick out of your ass. The problem here isn't the government.. I work here dammit! Yes we do get things done in reasonable time frames. The problem lies with the cable company or phone company. These guys are huge corporations and dealing with them is touchy. It's easy to bitch and yell at a phone clerk when you're the one paying the bill every month, but when such complaints have to go through the gov't chain, the end result is devoid of aggression and typicalls ends up with a signed letter saying "We received xyz complaints in the past 3 months. Please do something or else we'll have to send you another letter". You just can't threaten government-assisted monopolies when you ARE the government.
Great.. now i'll have to go through the gov't to file a complaint against Videotron's crappy cable service. More paperwork, more bullshit, more downtime.
Fact : Napster itself also has multiple servers that share no common link, as well as most other networked services. Everquest has multiple servers to share the load (I wouldn't want to see 60k players on the same server, even if it were a 32-box beowulf cluster - besides, it would be too crowded). There are simply too many clients in the world to have them all hammer the same box and the same pipe. It's a nuisance perhaps, but it is also a Good Thing (tm) since it inherently provides redundancy. One server goes down, you just point your client software to another server.. no single point of failure.
Hex editor.
Yeah.. so ? Sue the FBI calling them unscrupulous fraud artists ? No go.. because 1. They already know. 2. They can subpoena you for your password. and finally 3. Anyone talking against the FBI gets 'taken care of' quickly. I see the FBI as the inverse but not opposite of Hells Angels.. because they work in exactly the same ways, but with different business models.
Your example is merely pointing out the mediocrity of most VB coders. It's trivial to seek a file backwards, but VB coders aren't taught to think, they're taught to code, rather to cut/paste code and change variable names and whitespace to hide their plagiarism.
"The commission was created by Congress in the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2000 and is headed by Rep. Porter Goss, who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and Sen. Bob Kerrey, who until recently was vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee."
Senate Intelligence.. that's an oxymoron
lea edi,Napster.DownloadStream
mov ecx,[Napster.Buffersize]
repnz SDMIcrypt
mov ax,1234
int 4f
Why does this look, sound and smell exactly like a recent item titled "Monkey Think, Robot Do" ?
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But why would you risk yourself in storing the complete "works" of Metallica on a DVD ? You'd open yourself to lawsuits from both the RIAA *and* the MPAA =)
Wasn't this posted in a quickie a few months ago ? I very clearly recall seeing this device before.
Well then I can't say anything about /.ing on the throne (aside from being quite overkill), but for grocery lists I find that a 20$ planner from RadioSmack does the job just fine. That's 20$ Canadian! Sure, it's practically useless for anything else, but then again it does what it's designed for. These touchpad things aren't really designed for anything except raking in some forced cash in AOL's deep pockets. If you want to make grocery lists, get a cheap planner. If you want to look like an important, rich ignorant asshole, get a Palmpilot and flash it around. If you want a portable PC, get a laptop.. but for the love of fnarg, don't go for anything in-between. You don't _need_ to be online every second of the day.
That 5 years to market might be also a safety measure. Why ? Because no video card on the market right now can handle that many pixels in 2D yet. At their rough 9 megapixels, that means 36mb per screenpage for full resolution. Any game will therefore require at least 72mb for double-buffering.. more for 3D. Lastly, can you imagine the abusive CPU load required to ferry that many pixels from system ram to video ram ? Next thing you'll know, Internet Explorer will be using offscreen video ram for its browser cache since it will surely require at least 128mb onboard. Just plain nuts!
The article mentions that the TouchPad is planned to hit the market at 599$. 600 bucks for a stupid little web browsing thing ? Any trained gerbil could build a REAL PC for that price. Any midrange PC would be better than a dead-end proprietary device. An AMD K6-2-500 can be built for roughly the same price, but you'll be able to do much more than simple web browsing and email with it. 64mb ram, 10gb hard drive, sound, modem, lan, speakers, cdrom, monitor.. a complete entry-level PC for 600$ or less.
Jon Katz, twice today.. enough is enough.
This seems like a nice little concept, but here's something for you paranoid cypherpunks out there. Let's say you actually buy that stupid "Who let the dogs out" cd with this service, what do you think will happen when their next album comes out, or any similar band, or any band whose promoter sucked off the radio station's manager ? In ordering the cd, you've given them your name, address, but most importantly your *cell phone number!* Now they can call you anwhere, anytime to tele-harass you. They will manage to annoy you at the worst possible time (imagine being in a meeting and you answer your cell thinking it's important, only to end up stuck arguing with a stupid telemarketer who just won't give up - watch your executive reputation go through the basement). If you really want to buy whatever top40 crap's playing on the radio, just listen to the announcer when he/she says the title and group and stop by the mall to buy it. Cheaper, safer, and anonymous. Just tell them your personal info is none of their fucking business and they don't need it to sell you the damned cd. Something you just can't do on the phone when shipping is involved.
This looks like a direct clone of the Empeg car player that's been on the market for years now. Although the competition could be beneficial in terms of price slashing, it's nothing really new. Just a new name jumping into the game in progress. Why not just put an old P133 in your car trunk ? Removable IDE racks n'stuff.. make your own LCD and control panel.. more fun =)
The quick solution if you have a PS/2 mouse is to crank up the refresh rate of your mouse, but the downside of this is that it severely hogs down your system. If you crank it up to 100 or 200, the mouse will be quite fluid but you'll also notice that since the PS/2 port isn't polled but rather runs on an IRQ, it also taxes your cpu much more since it will be switching context 5 times more frequently than the default.. now it just so happens that context switches are one of the slowest things to execute on an x86 cpu so even on an 800mhz box it can be quite noticeable when anything else is being animated at the same time. Just try it out by dragging a window around your desktop and you'll notice that the faster you drag it, the jumpier it will get because the mouse is sending more interrupt requests to the cpu. Very technical but my honest suggestion is to get a USB mouse :)