In my early days I got papers out of HAL-PC BBS in houston, a chinese friend was the first real hacker I knew. Hacker in the truest sense, he understood every part of technology. Shortly after I found a reference to Phrack on one of the binary files he'd edited with a Hex dumping tool. That caught my attention but I had no access to Phrack. Years later as the web was born I remembered the name and got my issue of Phrack online, don't remember which one but was into the early 90's. Assembly language, phones, cool C "progz", Ascii art and UNIX when UNIX still had not a Linux offspring.
I will not deny that this news comes as a bit of a shock. All things must end, therefore in a saddened state I say goodbye to you old teacher and friend. You will be missed.
A new solar cell material has been discovered that converts 30% of the sun's energy to electricity.
That is so obviously wrong. I have not RTA but I can't help but point out that it should read "converts 30% of the perceived sunlight into electricity".
Cuz if you need a sure-fire way to fry Earth that'd be to convert 30% of the sun's energy to electricity down here.
An Enterprise OSS project that goes well will give the author plenty of business in consulting, book authoring, etc.
But what is the reward for an OSS game maker? Just fame and being hired by a non-OSS game co.?
Think about it. Games are different from enterprise software.
I'm a diehard OSS fan and developer and have been since the day I heard of it in the first place. That's why I run Brasilia Perl Mongers, that's why I've developed everything I have within the OSS paradigm. I'm just saying this to fundament my point, I'm a big fan of OSS.
Games are an optional, recreative, part of software development.
Linux himself on his book "Just For Fun" made the point clear : he loved the profit, the financial reward is important, you gotta have the financial reward.
If you build the game equivalent of Linux would you get the equivalent recognition of Linux? My point being : I don't think so.
Double channels have to have twice the transistors, right? If that's true then Moore's law lives on. Think of it as quad-processor machine in one cpu case....that's 4 times as many transistors as 1 CPU. Or am I missing something here?
Weird though it says BETA...hasn't this been out there forever now?
Don't waste your time reading it....Honest.
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What's Next For Google?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
This article is a collage of beaten subjects : possibilities of search, advertisement means money, and how Microsoft's Bill Gates will do anything to win this new war. It is SOOOO cliche it almost feels like someone paid for it.
- Technology means money, cites Microsoft, Cisco, Intel and IBM. (We didn't know that.)
- Those who prevail will have more chance to set the standard for the industry to follow. (This is news to me.)
- Says search will go through email, PDF, and even phone conversations(whatever they mean by that, to me sounds like spook work). (WILL? It already does, AFAIK...)
- Recruitment PR work included: says Google is great place to work at, allows pets, gives drinks, meals, massage and car wash (Who paid for this?).
- Says Google is based on citations, tells love story of Brin and Page inventing PageRank in Standford PhD(which they didn't finish). (Who paid for this?)
- Says advertising means money. (We didn't know that either.)
- Says only a few will prevail.(That neither.)
A strong contender for the christmas-weekend-cliche-of-the-year on Non News category.
Hey I run a site about tourism in Cuba. I'm not politically driven. Just wanted to make that clear before I say what I have to say.
I've been to Cuba, the dictatorship sucks. But what sucks the most is the US trade embargo.
You know why the US can't open the embargo? Because communism worked in Cuba. They're 100% literate, full college level education for 100% of the adult population, people speak 5 languages in most places, no crime, no drug or organized crime.
The worst part is not being able to use USA plastic money, no american products, nothing american on the streets except 1950's cars.
If the US opened the embargo they'd have a communist paradise right under Florida. But the US doesn't seem to be greateous enough to admit that communism works in small communities.
In small numbers of people it is possible to share and live in community without social darwinism.
If you hate communism as it was in Soviet Union please know that I do too. But that's not the kind of communism I'm talking about because that's not communisn at all.
Democracy is a system where the will of the majority should prevail.
The population of China is 10 times that of the USA. Does America really want a democracy in China? Imagine 2 billion people voting on the future of the USA(and the rest of us)...
Should the world stop pretending we like the idea of China guiding us? Or do most of us really want China a democracy?
You do make some good points. But we're not talking about a criminal here. He broke into a gun store and hid some porn from his parents behind the balcony, he didn't grab one of the guns and went out shooting.....
Bits and bites are replaceable. Your front door isn't. In this type of situation it is NASA that should be punished, and this kid given community service for showing NASA that Al Qaida could have been using this for who knows how long unnoticed. You can't use real-world reasoning for digital crimes. Digitally robbing something does not take it away from the owner, it is a copyright and intellectual property issue, not a regular crime. I posted below : if this kid got porno into these NASA servers just imagine what Al Qaida could have been doing....
Hey, if this kid got pr0n into these servers then foreign spies must have been using them for ages right under NASA's nose. Right now the KGB's of the world are insanely mad at this kid for showing NASA why they should patch a gaping security canyon.
6 months in jail and you make this kid an ex-con. He won't get a job anywhere decent, no credit, his chances in life even with a CS degree are 50%. The US has created another socially excluded propellerhead.
That's how inverted things are nowadays, and some here say this was fair punishment....NASA should be red-ashamed of allowing this kind of security hole open.
Makes you wonder if all the explanations we got for Challenger and Columbia aren't a pile of PR bullshit in the first place.
North Korea, Iran, anyone could have sabotaged these servers and all we get is the White House CNN pile of crap.
Gimme a break, free this kid, give him community service cleaning up spyware from gov computers and pay him the 200k for protecting americans against Al Qaida.
This judge obviously misunderstands the challenges of the 21st century. Ah, but so does the highest office of the US...
I humbly apologize. You're right and so is the original poster. I, for a moment, thought of kW/h not kWh. He's right, 1000 W turned on for 8 hours is indeed 8 kWh.
Sony unveiled on Tuesday a new DVD burner that can be connected to a camcorder or VCR for transferring taped footage directly to a DVD, without using a computer.
The main use for this will probably be mastering home tapes and camcorder family stuff onto optic media which is less prone to loss over the years.
OTOH it says it can be hooked up to a PC, I wonder how long before someone zaps the PROM to allow copy of any DVD.
But, still, the price tag makes it an unlikely choice for your occasional piracy trip. This is a family appliance rather than a geek thing, obviously if you wanted to dupe DVD's you'd be buying one of these.
If the EO-1 does not respond properly to ASE control, then LV2 detects the error, makes a diagnosis and radios its analysis to mission control at Goddard.
Conclusion:It's not self-fixing. It beams an analysis down to mission control, the crew can then take measures based on this analysis.
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In my early days I got papers out of HAL-PC BBS in houston, a chinese friend was the first real hacker I knew. Hacker in the truest sense, he understood every part of technology. Shortly after I found a reference to Phrack on one of the binary files he'd edited with a Hex dumping tool. That caught my attention but I had no access to Phrack. Years later as the web was born I remembered the name and got my issue of Phrack online, don't remember which one but was into the early 90's. Assembly language, phones, cool C "progz", Ascii art and UNIX when UNIX still had not a Linux offspring.
I will not deny that this news comes as a bit of a shock. All things must end, therefore in a saddened state I say goodbye to you old teacher and friend. You will be missed.
Should all physics books now have stickers warning that Relativity is "only" a theory?
Einstein's Noble prize was for demonstrating the photoelectric phenomenon.
Is a dual core actually an in-box dual processor that communicates between cores at extremely high speeds?
That is so obviously wrong. I have not RTA but I can't help but point out that it should read "converts 30% of the perceived sunlight into electricity".
Cuz if you need a sure-fire way to fry Earth that'd be to convert 30% of the sun's energy to electricity down here.
I've posted this in another discussion.
Not karma hoaring, mods can skip this if they wish, here is a list of reliable places where you can donate.
Sorry to reply to my own article but I meant Linus:
:"Linux himself on his book"
HERE
AND HERE: " equivalent recognition of Linux"
Sorry about that.
An Enterprise OSS project that goes well will give the author plenty of business in consulting, book authoring, etc.
But what is the reward for an OSS game maker? Just fame and being hired by a non-OSS game co.?
Think about it. Games are different from enterprise software.
I'm a diehard OSS fan and developer and have been since the day I heard of it in the first place. That's why I run Brasilia Perl Mongers, that's why I've developed everything I have within the OSS paradigm. I'm just saying this to fundament my point, I'm a big fan of OSS.
Games are an optional, recreative, part of software development.
Linux himself on his book "Just For Fun" made the point clear : he loved the profit, the financial reward is important, you gotta have the financial reward.
If you build the game equivalent of Linux would you get the equivalent recognition of Linux? My point being : I don't think so.
Double channels have to have twice the transistors, right? If that's true then Moore's law lives on. Think of it as quad-processor machine in one cpu case....that's 4 times as many transistors as 1 CPU. Or am I missing something here?
Well the biggest story this year has to do with Nature. Which I guess it's what science is all about.
Speaking of which : here are some of the places you can help with donations.
Perhaps it was a temporary destruction?
Google Groups is still there but I had not checked earlier this week : http://groups-beta.google.com/
Weird though it says BETA...hasn't this been out there forever now?
This article is a collage of beaten subjects : possibilities of search, advertisement means money, and how Microsoft's Bill Gates will do anything to win this new war. It is SOOOO cliche it almost feels like someone paid for it.
- Technology means money, cites Microsoft, Cisco, Intel and IBM. (We didn't know that.)
- Those who prevail will have more chance to set the standard for the industry to follow. (This is news to me.)
- Says search will go through email, PDF, and even phone conversations(whatever they mean by that, to me sounds like spook work). (WILL? It already does, AFAIK...)
- Recruitment PR work included: says Google is great place to work at, allows pets, gives drinks, meals, massage and car wash (Who paid for this?).
- Says Google is based on citations, tells love story of Brin and Page inventing PageRank in Standford PhD(which they didn't finish). (Who paid for this?)
- Says advertising means money. (We didn't know that either.)
- Says only a few will prevail.(That neither.)
A strong contender for the christmas-weekend-cliche-of-the-year on Non News category.
Hey I run a site about tourism in Cuba. I'm not politically driven. Just wanted to make that clear before I say what I have to say.
I've been to Cuba, the dictatorship sucks. But what sucks the most is the US trade embargo.
You know why the US can't open the embargo? Because communism worked in Cuba. They're 100% literate, full college level education for 100% of the adult population, people speak 5 languages in most places, no crime, no drug or organized crime.
The worst part is not being able to use USA plastic money, no american products, nothing american on the streets except 1950's cars.
If the US opened the embargo they'd have a communist paradise right under Florida. But the US doesn't seem to be greateous enough to admit that communism works in small communities.
In small numbers of people it is possible to share and live in community without social darwinism.
If you hate communism as it was in Soviet Union please know that I do too. But that's not the kind of communism I'm talking about because that's not communisn at all.
Democracy is a system where the will of the majority should prevail.
The population of China is 10 times that of the USA. Does America really want a democracy in China? Imagine 2 billion people voting on the future of the USA(and the rest of us)...
Should the world stop pretending we like the idea of China guiding us? Or do most of us really want China a democracy?
You seem to be employing superstition and religion interchangeably. They're very different things.
Although I'm not very religious and I see religion as a sort of superstition, 99% of humanity will not agree with me.
You do make some good points. But we're not talking about a criminal here. He broke into a gun store and hid some porn from his parents behind the balcony, he didn't grab one of the guns and went out shooting.....
Yeah, you're right. Maybe he should have sold the secret to Bin Laden for 1 million bucks instead of showing NASA the secret.
Shame on NASA, they're the only ones to blame here. You know the US gov has a big problem admitting its own mistakes in the past 4.x years.....
Bits and bites are replaceable. Your front door isn't. In this type of situation it is NASA that should be punished, and this kid given community service for showing NASA that Al Qaida could have been using this for who knows how long unnoticed. You can't use real-world reasoning for digital crimes. Digitally robbing something does not take it away from the owner, it is a copyright and intellectual property issue, not a regular crime. I posted below : if this kid got porno into these NASA servers just imagine what Al Qaida could have been doing....
Hey, if this kid got pr0n into these servers then foreign spies must have been using them for ages right under NASA's nose. Right now the KGB's of the world are insanely mad at this kid for showing NASA why they should patch a gaping security canyon.
6 months in jail and you make this kid an ex-con. He won't get a job anywhere decent, no credit, his chances in life even with a CS degree are 50%. The US has created another socially excluded propellerhead.
That's how inverted things are nowadays, and some here say this was fair punishment....NASA should be red-ashamed of allowing this kind of security hole open.
Makes you wonder if all the explanations we got for Challenger and Columbia aren't a pile of PR bullshit in the first place.
North Korea, Iran, anyone could have sabotaged these servers and all we get is the White House CNN pile of crap.
Gimme a break, free this kid, give him community service cleaning up spyware from gov computers and pay him the 200k for protecting americans against Al Qaida.
This judge obviously misunderstands the challenges of the 21st century. Ah, but so does the highest office of the US...
I humbly apologize. You're right and so is the original poster. I, for a moment, thought of kW/h not kWh. He's right, 1000 W turned on for 8 hours is indeed 8 kWh.
1000W for 8 hours is 1 kWh, not 8 kWh.
Think of it this way : if I drive at 55 mph for 8 hours, would that make it 440 mph?
The main use for this will probably be mastering home tapes and camcorder family stuff onto optic media which is less prone to loss over the years.
OTOH it says it can be hooked up to a PC, I wonder how long before someone zaps the PROM to allow copy of any DVD.
But, still, the price tag makes it an unlikely choice for your occasional piracy trip. This is a family appliance rather than a geek thing, obviously if you wanted to dupe DVD's you'd be buying one of these.
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Conclusion: It's not self-fixing. It beams an analysis down to mission control, the crew can then take measures based on this analysis.
Did you need that stupid analogy for an otherwise good idea?
I think they meant you won't have to reboot during a download, which as a linux user hasn't ever happened to me.
I do remember in the old days of Windows it usually did happen....I even had to get programs that dealt with "download management"....
Geez man....what the hell kinda solution is that...oh yeah I'll try every conceivable name for a directory, and for kicks, it's MD5.
../'?
Ever heard of 'ls