Many people are already suspicious the AV community is responsible for at least some of the more major virus outbreaks in the past. The shroud of secrecy they keep around their operations doesn't help matters any.
A situation like this REALLY makes it look like they're responsible for it. Why would they go around parading the fact that they knew about a worm they only did a half-assed job of protecting people from?
I don't remember where I've seen them though. Whatever the site was, it had a lot of interesting facts on the beginnings of O'Reilly and some pretty interesting stuff.
Is anyone else more than a little confused about what is and isn't a parody in all of this?
Dow killed lots of people and released a press release about it and now people have made a parody of it but the parody supposedly infringed on the DMCA and DOW released another press release but that was just a parody but DOW is really suing people but that's a parody of a parody and now the DMCA has grown arms and a mouth and is devouring babies?
Umm, I'm afraid you actually agree with him. He was lauding the efforts of parody sites like these because they help the general public laugh at and understand how stupid the websites started by "concerned mothers" are.
You could volunteer your time in a more productive fashion by doing any number of self-gratifying things, including, but not limited to Looking at porn, Hanging out at this site, or Turning off the internet. All interesting and fun activities that don't require you to send money to anyone.
Mighty good work Sherlock! If anyone deserves a cookie, it is truly you! Too bad the post was already modded 0, Troll when you decided to post your amazingly witty and informative comment.
You also assume we are stupid because we posted the link to our site and mention hoaxing Slashdot? Did it ever occur to you that perhaps our intention was to have Slashdot readers see that, AS IT WAS THE TOP FUCKING STORY ON OUR PAGE?
You, sir, need to get a life, and a clue, more badly than the majority of idiots I have ever met.
As many of our other editors know, and not as many of our readers may know, I, Spazntwich, am always looking for a good chance at attention whoring. I jumped on a chance for attention recently when I was offered a skirt to wear at school. "A skirt!!" you surely say. Yes, I, a male, wore a piece of women's clothing in a predominantly conservative and hyper-religious school. My review follows.
First off, I'd like to say that while I am a svelt 32 inch waist, it was nigh on impossible to find a skirt that would fit me properly. It didn't help matters that one of the only girls willing to lend me a skirt is... appetite challenged.
Despite the ill fit of the skirt (I was wearing the top of it around my waist, just so it would fit), I enjoyed wearing it immensely. I found that having on a skirt allowed me to show off my rather fetching legs quite well, a task even short shorts can't hope to accomplish.
In addition to showing off my beautiful exterior, the skirt brought out my inner beauty. While wearing it, I was filled with a sense of freedom that is all too absent when wearing something as restrictive as shorts and pants. It allowed me to speak with a flamingly gay lisp without any thought that what I was doing was absurd and embarassing, and also made me want to do nothing other than express my happiness.
On the negatives, the skirt has several. The first thing I noticed after wearing it for about 20 minutes was an intense itching around the area the skirt was contacting my skin. I believe this is simply the result of a poorly manufactured skirt and that a more carefully engineered skirt would be much more comfortable.
The second significant downside I experienced was a strange urge to talk constantly about myself, tell everyone secrets, gossip about my friends, primp in the bathroom for 2 hours before leaving to go anywhere, talk on my cell phone, and drive poorly. I'm not sure if there's any cure for these side affects.
So in short, I recommend skirt wearing for a limited period of time for any and all men who are comfortable in their masculinity. Wearing one is truly an eye-opening experience.
And yes, you sick bastards, I've got pictures, and yes, they will be posted soon.
Start out with the bold statement - good. I'll try to be less incorrect.
Yeah, sorry. I'd just read some of the more confrontational replies to my original post, and I was a little peeved. Your reply was a lot less confrontational, and I should have been less mean-spirited. With that said, AoE and C&C are old by a number of years. I'm referring to current games. Warcraft III apparently (I say this because I don't have it, but know people who do) is very graphics intensive, and to run it in high detail and normal resolution requires quite a bit of horsepower.
You're right about VIA doing well with their Eden platform (I own an EPIA-800 myself, and it's fun as hell), but they're not bringing in the big bucks off these as just STBs. People are buying them as 'cute little computers' or office PCs to save space, and personally, I think the Eden platform is much more relevant to today's market than these other reviewed motherboards are. They're smaller, quieter, cheaper, but they still get the job done for 90% of people.
The last part confused me a bit, because I've been playing SoF2 alright on an original GeForce 256 DDR until recently. Maybe I just have lower standards... *shrug* Is 1024x768 really an absolute minimum for FPS these days?
What settings do you use? 1280x1024 with all settings on brought my system down to 15 FPS levels. 1024x768 medium details is acceptable most of the time (50-70fps), but in any sort of a large fire-fight, it slows down significantly (20-30 fps). And while it is totally subjective, yes, 1024x768 seems to be the general consensus for the minimum any game should run at. 800x600 is just noticeably worse on a 19" monitor.
Actually, in all of the advertisements I've seen for nForce board based computers, they say "Uses nForce technology". They don't even try to hype up its 3d, and your average consumer isn't going to know WTF "nForce" is.
I'll look up the price differential in a second. I haven't priced motherboards in a long time, but a few months ago, you could get a SiS integrated Video/Sound/Lan board for ~80$, and an nForce board for $130.
I take it you haven't really looked at the specs for this integrated chipset.
I have. Integrated Geforce2 mx core. Wow! Geforce 2 mx! That was the BUDGET (read, slow) version of the geforce 2, released 1 or 2 years ago. Gosh, that must be fast.
Radeon VE! Wow! VE = Value edition, in case you didn't know. The VE was the bastard child of the radeon family. It was known for it's crippled core and slow performance.
Wow, 845G! That thing's using technology that Nvidia and ATI have had in their cards for, going on 2 years now? And, what's that? It's also unstable?
So yes, to answer your question, I have looked at their specs. They are pathetic and slow. They are more than an average person needs, and far far less than an average gamer needs.
These integrated chipsets have a lot of nice features, including digital 5.1 sound. It's essentially like having a GeForce4 MX (a card I have in my machine at home) with a good quality sound-card - only, two fewer cards to buy.
Not everyone likes having a mess of cards in their PC. Not everyone needs bleeding edge. Lots of people are perfectly happy not having the latest-greatest.
That's who this integrated chipset is for.
Thanks for missing my point. I'm not arguing against integrated chipsets. I'm arguing against the integrated video cards in them.
And you know the nail in the coffin for the integrated solutions? They leech bandwidth from the CPU. Your gf4 mx at home is fine in performance because it has a 128 bit bus running at 400mhz effective to it's gpu. An integrated video solution has to run off the bandwidth supplied to the cpu. If it's the ATI chipset, it's cannibializing part of the piss-poor 64-bit 333mhz bus going to the cpu. If it's the Nvidia part, it's for a while 64-bit 333mhz bus to play with too. Big whoop. That's LESS THAN HALF of what the card has as a standalone soltuion. And keep in mind even on the standalone cards, these things are bandwidth limited, not fill-rate.
So, tell you what. I'm willing to admit I'm wrong if you can come up with facts and information to prove me wrong. Just don't fight back with more conjecture and subjective arguments that don't mean anything in the real world.
Slashdot Mirror
Many people are already suspicious the AV community is responsible for at least some of the more major virus outbreaks in the past. The shroud of secrecy they keep around their operations doesn't help matters any.
A situation like this REALLY makes it look like they're responsible for it. Why would they go around parading the fact that they knew about a worm they only did a half-assed job of protecting people from?
Seems kind of fishy.
I guess it's better than him trying to wash the blood of 13 year old boys out of his underwear.
And while you're at it, visit this site for more entertainment and horrible humor.
I found Ablabla.org' write-up to be more informative, and less full of the typos inherent in any Slashdot article.
Did you read his post? He said "Not that that's a bad thing", meaning "That's a good thing".
You're arguing with him, yet you agree with him.
How long until Slashdot becomes completely shameless and starts just admitting to their advertisements all over their front page?
I don't remember where I've seen them though. Whatever the site was, it had a lot of interesting facts on the beginnings of O'Reilly and some pretty interesting stuff.
Is anyone else more than a little confused about what is and isn't a parody in all of this?
Dow killed lots of people and released a press release about it and now people have made a parody of it but the parody supposedly infringed on the DMCA and DOW released another press release but that was just a parody but DOW is really suing people but that's a parody of a parody and now the DMCA has grown arms and a mouth and is devouring babies?
Umm, I'm afraid you actually agree with him. He was lauding the efforts of parody sites like these because they help the general public laugh at and understand how stupid the websites started by "concerned mothers" are.
You could volunteer your time in a more productive fashion by doing any number of self-gratifying things, including, but not limited to Looking at porn, Hanging out at this site, or Turning off the internet. All interesting and fun activities that don't require you to send money to anyone.
Mighty good work Sherlock! If anyone deserves a cookie, it is truly you! Too bad the post was already modded 0, Troll when you decided to post your amazingly witty and informative comment.
You also assume we are stupid because we posted the link to our site and mention hoaxing Slashdot? Did it ever occur to you that perhaps our intention was to have Slashdot readers see that, AS IT WAS THE TOP FUCKING STORY ON OUR PAGE?
You, sir, need to get a life, and a clue, more badly than the majority of idiots I have ever met.
But there's a mirror available here.
Check out this site. They seem to know some interesting stuff that the article doesn't cover.
Don't you mean spelled 'incorrectly'? ;)
Go to Ablabla.org. Because I'm bored.
That's actually really interesting. I'm forwarding your information to the guy who wrote the link.
Download it? Are you sure you're not trying to spread a virus to tons of unsuspecting /. users?
Heh heh heh. While we might hate slashdot, we love slashdot readers. That's why we actually mirrored the article.
This site has a mirror of the article up. No registration required.
The poor picture quality?
Because that's a TV, dumbass.
But our site looks like a fucking joke! It's layout is horrible, and our rape porn pics are all super low quality.
Hell, even our preggie porn is low qual, and you wouldn't think pregnant women would be able to struggle enough to get away that fast.
Oh well. Visit my site. It's better than the shit that was linked to in the Slashdot article.
And... BSD IS DYING!!!!!!!
Visit it! Click on my whole post!
As many of our other editors know, and not as many of our readers may know, I, Spazntwich, am always looking for a good chance at attention whoring. I jumped on a chance for attention recently when I was offered a skirt to wear at school. "A skirt!!" you surely say. Yes, I, a male, wore a piece of women's clothing in a predominantly conservative and hyper-religious school. My review follows.
First off, I'd like to say that while I am a svelt 32 inch waist, it was nigh on impossible to find a skirt that would fit me properly. It didn't help matters that one of the only girls willing to lend me a skirt is... appetite challenged.
Despite the ill fit of the skirt (I was wearing the top of it around my waist, just so it would fit), I enjoyed wearing it immensely. I found that having on a skirt allowed me to show off my rather fetching legs quite well, a task even short shorts can't hope to accomplish.
In addition to showing off my beautiful exterior, the skirt brought out my inner beauty. While wearing it, I was filled with a sense of freedom that is all too absent when wearing something as restrictive as shorts and pants. It allowed me to speak with a flamingly gay lisp without any thought that what I was doing was absurd and embarassing, and also made me want to do nothing other than express my happiness.
On the negatives, the skirt has several. The first thing I noticed after wearing it for about 20 minutes was an intense itching around the area the skirt was contacting my skin. I believe this is simply the result of a poorly manufactured skirt and that a more carefully engineered skirt would be much more comfortable.
The second significant downside I experienced was a strange urge to talk constantly about myself, tell everyone secrets, gossip about my friends, primp in the bathroom for 2 hours before leaving to go anywhere, talk on my cell phone, and drive poorly. I'm not sure if there's any cure for these side affects.
So in short, I recommend skirt wearing for a limited period of time for any and all men who are comfortable in their masculinity. Wearing one is truly an eye-opening experience.
And yes, you sick bastards, I've got pictures, and yes, they will be posted soon.
Start out with the bold statement - good. I'll try to be less incorrect.
Yeah, sorry. I'd just read some of the more confrontational replies to my original post, and I was a little peeved. Your reply was a lot less confrontational, and I should have been less mean-spirited. With that said, AoE and C&C are old by a number of years. I'm referring to current games. Warcraft III apparently (I say this because I don't have it, but know people who do) is very graphics intensive, and to run it in high detail and normal resolution requires quite a bit of horsepower.
You're right about VIA doing well with their Eden platform (I own an EPIA-800 myself, and it's fun as hell), but they're not bringing in the big bucks off these as just STBs. People are buying them as 'cute little computers' or office PCs to save space, and personally, I think the Eden platform is much more relevant to today's market than these other reviewed motherboards are. They're smaller, quieter, cheaper, but they still get the job done for 90% of people.
The last part confused me a bit, because I've been playing SoF2 alright on an original GeForce 256 DDR until recently. Maybe I just have lower standards... *shrug* Is 1024x768 really an absolute minimum for FPS these days?
What settings do you use? 1280x1024 with all settings on brought my system down to 15 FPS levels. 1024x768 medium details is acceptable most of the time (50-70fps), but in any sort of a large fire-fight, it slows down significantly (20-30 fps). And while it is totally subjective, yes, 1024x768 seems to be the general consensus for the minimum any game should run at. 800x600 is just noticeably worse on a 19" monitor.
Actually, in all of the advertisements I've seen for nForce board based computers, they say "Uses nForce technology". They don't even try to hype up its 3d, and your average consumer isn't going to know WTF "nForce" is.
I'll look up the price differential in a second. I haven't priced motherboards in a long time, but a few months ago, you could get a SiS integrated Video/Sound/Lan board for ~80$, and an nForce board for $130.
You're putting words into my mouth.
I take it you haven't really looked at the specs for this integrated chipset.
I have. Integrated Geforce2 mx core. Wow! Geforce 2 mx! That was the BUDGET (read, slow) version of the geforce 2, released 1 or 2 years ago. Gosh, that must be fast.
Radeon VE! Wow! VE = Value edition, in case you didn't know. The VE was the bastard child of the radeon family. It was known for it's crippled core and slow performance.
Wow, 845G! That thing's using technology that Nvidia and ATI have had in their cards for, going on 2 years now? And, what's that? It's also unstable?
So yes, to answer your question, I have looked at their specs. They are pathetic and slow. They are more than an average person needs, and far far less than an average gamer needs.
These integrated chipsets have a lot of nice features, including digital 5.1 sound. It's essentially like having a GeForce4 MX (a card I have in my machine at home) with a good quality sound-card - only, two fewer cards to buy.
Not everyone likes having a mess of cards in their PC. Not everyone needs bleeding edge. Lots of people are perfectly happy not having the latest-greatest.
That's who this integrated chipset is for.
Thanks for missing my point. I'm not arguing against integrated chipsets. I'm arguing against the integrated video cards in them.
And you know the nail in the coffin for the integrated solutions? They leech bandwidth from the CPU. Your gf4 mx at home is fine in performance because it has a 128 bit bus running at 400mhz effective to it's gpu. An integrated video solution has to run off the bandwidth supplied to the cpu. If it's the ATI chipset, it's cannibializing part of the piss-poor 64-bit 333mhz bus going to the cpu. If it's the Nvidia part, it's for a while 64-bit 333mhz bus to play with too. Big whoop. That's LESS THAN HALF of what the card has as a standalone soltuion. And keep in mind even on the standalone cards, these things are bandwidth limited, not fill-rate.
So, tell you what. I'm willing to admit I'm wrong if you can come up with facts and information to prove me wrong. Just don't fight back with more conjecture and subjective arguments that don't mean anything in the real world.