being a recent high school graduate, AP computer science student, and all around bus-riding, k-mart clothes wearing, industrial music listening geek, i think this entire story is bullshit.
sure, i didn't have all the money to afford a fancy car, fuck, i didn't even have my drivers license until a year after i graduated from high school. i listened to marilyn manson. i didn't wear abercrombie and fitch. i hated "the man".
but...
i was friends with most of the football team, the senior prom queen was a good friend of mine. i went to football games but during my study halls and lunches, you'd find me in good old room 109, the main computer lab. i think the problem here is kids that want to be different just for the sake of being different. every time i hear somebody say "non-conformist" it makes my skin crawl. why? not because i don't respect what they do, it's because i don't respect why they do it. they aren't being different because they enjoy what they're doing - they are being different because they enjoy being different. they like to be able to call themselves "non-conformists". i also think there is a trend among such 'non-conformists' to label the ones that they see as 'conformists' as being inferior to them. how many times has one of the 'non-conformists' started complaining about the way their school works, and spitefully brought up the actions of the jocks? happens almost every time. the jocks are "the man" in the opinion of these non-conformists. they are popular, so they are intellectually inferior, the story goes. fuck that.
it makes my brain hurt just trying to imagine what having 4 color vision would be like...
kinda like trying to imagine 4 dimensional space...
ooh... headache....
one of my friends has been collecting video games for quite some time, and his collection dwarfs this one. i had no idea that collections like this could cost this much! i cannot wait to tell him!
actually, if all of the slashdot authors read EVERY story which came across the site, and could recall everything which was ever mentioned in quickies, i'd be seriously concerned for their social life.
just think, slashdot is free. there are no guarantees anywhere that one of the authors isn't going to go out and enjoy the big blue room. we are human we are allowed to make mistakes. perhaps this author thought that the story deserved more attention. perhaps he had never seen it. perhaps he just wanted to post it again. it's his decision.
if you people have a problem with slashdot, just stop coming. it'd make it much more enjoyable.
i for one am glad they reposted this article, as i wanted to read more about what the hard core techs at slashdot thought about it's feasibility as a commercial product, and how hard this hack is.
moral of story: if you have a problem with slashdot's authors, either filter them out or go somewhere else. i hate whiners.
ha!
that's what i always do. only instead of CCing to a throwaway account, I also upload it to a geocities account so i can fetch it later (i'm taking classes at a community college which won't allow use anything but port 81, so i have to be able to send through HTTP or else I'd just upload it to my own server through FTP.
it's about time nasa realized that it's alot more cost effective to come close to heavenly bodies than it is to crash into them. If I have to read one more "NASA to crash probe into _______" i'm going to scream! I mean, in the interest of science, crashing probes into distant moons or planets may be educational, but for the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on such missions, it seems the money would be better spent feeding homeless people, coming up with alternatives to petrochemicals to fuel our vehicles, buying everyone in the USA a puppy, or any of those things that would really make an impact in our society.
Hmm... looks like i forgot to put my soapbox tag in there....
being that SOMEBODY always seems to be complaining about x86, and how (insert other processor here) is *so* much better would it be a good idea for intel and AMD to make chips with two different instruction sets and then gradually phase out x86 once the newer instruction set becomes mainstream? it seems like a good idea in that people wouldn't have to immediately abandon x86, but would have quite a while to replace their software with the newer versions, and after a while, the new instruction set would become standard, and not too many people would notice (windows users, do you still use 3.11 and it's software? linux users: you know that you could port linux to any platform...)
Why? Even if you hate linux, a stripped down operating system streamlined for games doesn't require as much resource overhead, and therefore will run smoother.
Now, my opinion is that Microsoft should look more into creating a stripped down OS for the desktop, rather than repackaging the PC with the X-Box. Then, if you wanted anything else (joy stick port, TV out, etc) MS could release addons for it, rather than making you pay the full price for a castrated PC. IT'd be cheaper, and run well too. (I do recognize the fact that you could run into problems being that PC's aren't as standardized and self contained, but I think we could get around that)
two misinformed candidates, not actually answering the question, but rather dancing around it. if file sharing is wrong, then we'll have
to sue Microsoft for creating MSIE because it allows me to get files from all over the internet, and not just mp3's!
Vote for your local McDonalds Fry Cook For President!
you're right. with holiday season approaching, there'd be nothing more i'd like to give bill warman than a metric-fuckton of hard copy prior art delivered to his door so i never have to hear about him ever again.
from the ok-so-even-*more*-convincing-identify-theft dept.
i think that just about sums up the problems i have with this database. not only identity theft, but somebody with "the hook up" could put anybody's DNA on anything they wanted. just a wee little sample and a few amplifications using PCR reactions, and poof! we have enough of your DNA to implicate you in just about ANY crime! yay!
that's some mo' betta zilla.
um. mozilla's good and all, but i really don't get the feel of the interface. maybe it's from years of being win-spoiled, but, you have to admit that with windows being the Most Popular (TM) interface these days, wouldn't it make sense to have it look more windowsy? i dunno, maybe change is necessary in the long run. that way we won't end up with a 64 bit patch to the 32 bit patch to the 16 bit file manager for an 8 bit operating system that windows is.
that was the point to having prospective TLD owners submit 'intended use' reports. taco couldn't just take over.microsoft, unless the central governing group (which could be made up of ICANN and other TLD controllers) deemed their 'intended use' to be one that kept the internet free and unadulterated. that would keep cybersquatters from buying up all the TLD's as possible, as they'd have to answer to both ICANN and their peers.
warning. it's real late, i just got home. forgive me if this makes no sense.:)
while having a centralized power for assigning names and numbers helps the internet from fragmenting into proprietary networks, i think that we could come up with a better way of running this. i don't want the people running the ICANN to have any political agenda. I just want them to keep things running smoothly. Taco wants his.dot (presumably for slashdot.dot/slash/) so why do we have to wait for these people to approve it? what it think the icann should be doing is giving out TLD's to organizations who apply for them (say Taco were to send in a request for control of ".dot" stating why ".dot" would be a necessary addition, or different than.com or any other TLD's, and what his intended use of the TLD is, who he's going to let use it, etc.) And then, people looking for a domain could then register through the TLD owner (if i wanted dotdotdot.dot, i'd have to go through taco) and all the ICANN's job would be is making sure that people stuck to their intended uses of their TLD's, and read peoples requests for control over TLD's. This way, there'd still be a centralized standard system, but it'd allow for more domains, and less power in the hands of ICANN, who seemingly has a political agenda. it would force a system of checks and balances, which i don't see today.
A Plan to use Action Describing or Implicating Words in the spoken or written language as a persuasive tool to sell goods and or services.
Our method of Action Describing or Implicating Words (trade name: "Verbs") increases rates of sales by allowing the licensee of the method to fully describe anything, be it an object or an action. This also allows for more persuasive sales pitches! These "Verbs" are the most important part of our method, and should be considered our Intellectual Property. Being that our sales plan relies on this Intellectual Property, all uses not licensed by we, the inventors, are prohibited. Prosecutors will be Violated:)
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being a recent high school graduate, AP computer science student, and all around bus-riding, k-mart clothes wearing, industrial music listening geek, i think this entire story is bullshit.
:)
sure, i didn't have all the money to afford a fancy car, fuck, i didn't even have my drivers license until a year after i graduated from high school. i listened to marilyn manson. i didn't wear abercrombie and fitch. i hated "the man".
but...
i was friends with most of the football team, the senior prom queen was a good friend of mine. i went to football games but during my study halls and lunches, you'd find me in good old room 109, the main computer lab. i think the problem here is kids that want to be different just for the sake of being different. every time i hear somebody say "non-conformist" it makes my skin crawl. why? not because i don't respect what they do, it's because i don't respect why they do it. they aren't being different because they enjoy what they're doing - they are being different because they enjoy being different. they like to be able to call themselves "non-conformists". i also think there is a trend among such 'non-conformists' to label the ones that they see as 'conformists' as being inferior to them. how many times has one of the 'non-conformists' started complaining about the way their school works, and spitefully brought up the actions of the jocks? happens almost every time. the jocks are "the man" in the opinion of these non-conformists. they are popular, so they are intellectually inferior, the story goes. fuck that.
all we need is a little love in the world
it makes my brain hurt just trying to imagine what having 4 color vision would be like... kinda like trying to imagine 4 dimensional space... ooh... headache....
one of my friends has been collecting video games for quite some time, and his collection dwarfs this one. i had no idea that collections like this could cost this much! i cannot wait to tell him!
this is correct!
having been raised in arcade (quite literally, my parents owned them) i can tell you YOU ARE CORRECT, SIR!
actually, if all of the slashdot authors read EVERY story which came across the site, and could recall everything which was ever mentioned in quickies, i'd be seriously concerned for their social life.
just think, slashdot is free. there are no guarantees anywhere that one of the authors isn't going to go out and enjoy the big blue room. we are human we are allowed to make mistakes. perhaps this author thought that the story deserved more attention. perhaps he had never seen it. perhaps he just wanted to post it again. it's his decision.
if you people have a problem with slashdot, just stop coming. it'd make it much more enjoyable.
i for one am glad they reposted this article, as i wanted to read more about what the hard core techs at slashdot thought about it's feasibility as a commercial product, and how hard this hack is.
moral of story: if you have a problem with slashdot's authors, either filter them out or go somewhere else. i hate whiners.
while i've been waiting for ASCI white to take #1 for a while, I still cannot wait for BLUE GENE
1,000,000,000,000,000 ops per second... that's alota freakin' ops...
Let's see... $20 canadian, in the US, that'd be worth approximately...
5 "Alpha-Bits" Box tops plus 3 dollars postage and handling, right?
ha!
that's what i always do. only instead of CCing to a throwaway account, I also upload it to a geocities account so i can fetch it later (i'm taking classes at a community college which won't allow use anything but port 81, so i have to be able to send through HTTP or else I'd just upload it to my own server through FTP.
it's about time nasa realized that it's alot more cost effective to come close to heavenly bodies than it is to crash into them. If I have to read one more "NASA to crash probe into _______" i'm going to scream! I mean, in the interest of science, crashing probes into distant moons or planets may be educational, but for the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on such missions, it seems the money would be better spent feeding homeless people, coming up with alternatives to petrochemicals to fuel our vehicles, buying everyone in the USA a puppy, or any of those things that would really make an impact in our society.
Hmm... looks like i forgot to put my soapbox tag in there....
dude, you are so much more learned in this than i am :)
i hear you. i happen to like x86, it's just that x86 cannot be brought up in /. without groans...
being that SOMEBODY always seems to be complaining about x86, and how (insert other processor here) is *so* much better would it be a good idea for intel and AMD to make chips with two different instruction sets and then gradually phase out x86 once the newer instruction set becomes mainstream? it seems like a good idea in that people wouldn't have to immediately abandon x86, but would have quite a while to replace their software with the newer versions, and after a while, the new instruction set would become standard, and not too many people would notice (windows users, do you still use 3.11 and it's software? linux users: you know that you could port linux to any platform...)
it was originally .5
then he got his NES
just kidding, dammit!
this is a Really Good Idea.
Why? Even if you hate linux, a stripped down operating system streamlined for games doesn't require as much resource overhead, and therefore will run smoother.
Now, my opinion is that Microsoft should look more into creating a stripped down OS for the desktop, rather than repackaging the PC with the X-Box. Then, if you wanted anything else (joy stick port, TV out, etc) MS could release addons for it, rather than making you pay the full price for a castrated PC. IT'd be cheaper, and run well too. (I do recognize the fact that you could run into problems being that PC's aren't as standardized and self contained, but I think we could get around that)
two misinformed candidates, not actually answering the question, but rather dancing around it. if file sharing is wrong, then we'll have to sue Microsoft for creating MSIE because it allows me to get files from all over the internet, and not just mp3's!
Vote for your local McDonalds Fry Cook For President!
if my life is ever depicted with video game screenshots, i hope to god it contains more Leisure Suit Larry than The Sims.
you're right. with holiday season approaching, there'd be nothing more i'd like to give bill warman than a metric-fuckton of hard copy prior art delivered to his door so i never have to hear about him ever again.
too bad the guy who stole it wasn't dumb enough to try to fence it on ebay. that woulda been funny as shit!
For Sale:
German Enigma Machine (RARE)
Almost EXACTLY like the one stolen recently!
All original parts, guaranteed against DOA. LOW RESERVE!!!!!!
Take this chance to own a piece of history! SERIOUS BIDS ONLY, NO DEALERS PLEASE!
from the ok-so-even-*more*-convincing-identify-theft dept.
i think that just about sums up the problems i have with this database. not only identity theft, but somebody with "the hook up" could put anybody's DNA on anything they wanted. just a wee little sample and a few amplifications using PCR reactions, and poof! we have enough of your DNA to implicate you in just about ANY crime! yay!
if at first you don't succeed, try try again.
.dot :)
the current system obviously doesn't work well. let's try something else. at least my plan would put more control into the end-users hands.
and, taco would get his
that's some mo' betta zilla. um. mozilla's good and all, but i really don't get the feel of the interface. maybe it's from years of being win-spoiled, but, you have to admit that with windows being the Most Popular (TM) interface these days, wouldn't it make sense to have it look more windowsy? i dunno, maybe change is necessary in the long run. that way we won't end up with a 64 bit patch to the 32 bit patch to the 16 bit file manager for an 8 bit operating system that windows is.
that was the point to having prospective TLD owners submit 'intended use' reports. taco couldn't just take over .microsoft, unless the central governing group (which could be made up of ICANN and other TLD controllers) deemed their 'intended use' to be one that kept the internet free and unadulterated. that would keep cybersquatters from buying up all the TLD's as possible, as they'd have to answer to both ICANN and their peers.
:)
warning. it's real late, i just got home. forgive me if this makes no sense.
while having a centralized power for assigning names and numbers helps the internet from fragmenting into proprietary networks, i think that we could come up with a better way of running this. i don't want the people running the ICANN to have any political agenda. I just want them to keep things running smoothly. Taco wants his .dot (presumably for slashdot.dot/slash/) so why do we have to wait for these people to approve it? what it think the icann should be doing is giving out TLD's to organizations who apply for them (say Taco were to send in a request for control of ".dot" stating why ".dot" would be a necessary addition, or different than .com or any other TLD's, and what his intended use of the TLD is, who he's going to let use it, etc.) And then, people looking for a domain could then register through the TLD owner (if i wanted dotdotdot.dot, i'd have to go through taco) and all the ICANN's job would be is making sure that people stuck to their intended uses of their TLD's, and read peoples requests for control over TLD's. This way, there'd still be a centralized standard system, but it'd allow for more domains, and less power in the hands of ICANN, who seemingly has a political agenda. it would force a system of checks and balances, which i don't see today.
i do believe that 'supposed' would be a Verb(tm).
Better call your lawyers.
My Stupid Patent (for those who care)
:)
A Plan to use Action Describing or Implicating Words in the spoken or written language as a persuasive tool to sell goods and or services.
Our method of Action Describing or Implicating Words (trade name: "Verbs") increases rates of sales by allowing the licensee of the method to fully describe anything, be it an object or an action. This also allows for more persuasive sales pitches! These "Verbs" are the most important part of our method, and should be considered our Intellectual Property. Being that our sales plan relies on this Intellectual Property, all uses not licensed by we, the inventors, are prohibited. Prosecutors will be Violated
Yes. It's a patent on verbs.