Notice they don't say that you have to reveal your methods to claim whatever money they MIGHT give you, you just have to crack it. So crack it, then hold out until they give you as much as you demand, if not more.
After that, open-source the crack and watch the whole damned thing fall to pieces.
As much as I hope nobody even so much as tries this, I just know there will be some 733t cr4ck3rz out there that won't be able to resist the money and the ego of the whole thing. Sad.
What's worse, they're shooting themselves in the foot. The "contest" (hereafter referred to as "The Sham") runs from Sept. 15 until Oct. 7th. Why that window? Do you REALLY think that if someone is dedicated to cracking whateverthehell it is they're proposing, they'll give up after 3 weeks? Hell no - they'll pick away at it month by month until it's split wide open. Three weeks isn't going to do them a damn bit of good, IMNSHO.
...web redirects are nothing new. They can be used for a variety of legitimate features
such as load balancing, randomizing, hit tracking, etc etc. Why is it inherently evil when Microsoft does it?
I'll tell ya why. When I use Netscape and click on my/. bookmark, it takes me right there. Same with my
Freefall bookmark, my
User Friendly bookmark, my
news bookmark, and even my
play bookmark. Direct. No redirects.
But now Micro$oft comes along and says, "Hey, we can make money off this too!" and starts doing redirects with their strong-armed browser market. Load balancing? Hit tracking? Bullshit. Let MY ISP deal with load balancing, or the sites that I'm actually going to (notice none of them are M$). Ditto with hit tracking.
Basically, M$ has no NEED to redirect. They just decided to do it and grab MORE information from those who happen to use IE (not me!!) and yet further bend the Internet public over and have their way with us.
You have exactly 15ms to complete your response... Go.
Ummmm... last I checked, "ms" denoted "milliseconds". For microseconds, you have to use "um" in text, unless you can somehow get a lower-cased Greek letter Mu to show up in front of the "s". THAT is microseconds.
Of course, they may as well be the same thing relative to human response times...:)
I was watching this with about 10 other engineers one night in a dank basement aparment on a small crappy TV. We got to the part where WHOPR (or whatever the supercomputer was called) was hacking the launch sequences digit by digit. My friend pipes up,
Yes, that's right - open a window once in a while.:)
I keep my furnace fan running 24/7 to keep air circulated, but if you're circulating crappy air, what good is that? The solution is to simply crack a window once in a while. You don't need a gale-force wind whipping through to clean all the air out, just enough so that your apartment can "breathe".
A word of warning, however; if you're right downtown, opening a window may simply allow exhaust fumes to come in instead. If there's a lot of air pollution outside, then no matter what you're pretty screwed, and need to go with an actual air filter.
If you like to vacuum, Filter Queen vacuums are actually rated as air purifiers, and the active carbon filter needs only be changed once a year. So each time you vacuum (or just leaving it running on low for a while) it purifies the air. You can get them used/refurbished rather reasonably, if you look in the right places.
OK, everyone's in agreement that this is cool, right? And everyone's in agreement that we'll never, ever, in our wildest dreams, EVER see them on store shelves at Batteries Plus or Radio Slack or the like?
At the risk of being male-centric, I propose this watch to be the de facto standard of what will henceforth be called WOODWARE.:)
So I'll get this bike, and go for a ride to my friend's house. After I try to dislodge the dirt and gravel from the connectors when I get there, I'll check out the weather report, and find out exactly when my trick e-bicycle is going to get soaked (oops, on the way home - shit!) and become a heavy, bulky, ugly bike with some waterlogged ex-LAN components strewn throughout.
As I swallow the grain of salt, I noticed it's stamped "PROOF OF CONCEPT ONLY" on it...
Their idea is that cyberspace will generate free zones apart from traditional government laws on speech
or other control, policing or taxation. Like the residents of the march regions, residents and
businesspeople in these new cyber-zones will go largely untaxed, because taxes will be almost
impossible to tabulate and collect.
Does this sound like Sealand (more info here) and HavenCo? It sure does to me.
I was pondering at length on this a while back, and had a disturbing though:
What would happen if instead of HavenCo operating on Sealand, suddenly Microsoft picked up from Redmond and plunked itself down on Sealand? What would happen if Microsoft was its own COUNTRY?
no more hiring cheap foreign nationals to avoid paying for
someone's experience.
"Foreign nationals" has nothing to do with it. If a company has an entry level position they want to fill, they are not going to shell out over twice the salary to get an experienced, older worker to fill that role. That would be absolutely stupid. They will try to find an entry level worker, either domestically, or a foreign national.
Yes, there may be a large number of experienced IT professionals out there. Unfortunately, it is likely NOT the case that they would want to take a salary cut and fill an entry level position. So, what do you do? Increase the number of visas so you can get the entry-level workers you need.
And the last thing anyone needs is another bloody union. "Sorry - I'd patch that code for you, but I'm on my union-mandated break right now. Don't try to patch it yourself, either - that's Union work!!" Shudder.
Just a question, but why would anyone WANT the "aolbeta.com" domain name? Is there some other acronym/group/entity that I don't know about that would make this make a bit more sense?
Otherwise, it would seem that registering any aol*.* domain names would just be harrassing AOL (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, if they keep shit like this up).
There was also the fact that we had whole racks of machines that were configured differently to test various sound cards, barcode
readers, Windows versions, audio cables, etc.
And all of that relates to reading the output of a device you didn't make HOW? You're talking about all the research and development that went into the service behind the device. For all the work you did, you could have sent out a radish-twaddler that read the mind of the user and sent that information back to your server. The CueCat had nothing to do with it.
Yes, you worked hard. But not at developing the CueCat, and not at getting the CueCat to spit out a stream of data when it scanned something. The two are wholly separate issues.
Unfortunately, it's a lot easier to find flaws in someone's design than it is to design something yourself. I deal with this every day where I work, with sales, marketing, and even the guys on the assembly line critiquing my work. Some points are valid (like yours about the desk), but it's not hard to miss some of the finer points like that if you're going at it from scratch.
Good idea aside, how often do *you* take your desk apart for modularity? I never have yet. You'd give up a lot of sturdiness by the Lego desk modular, unfortunately.
There's one decent (even if Euro-centric) reason English will stay top dog, and one excellent reason.
Decent reason: the nations that have developed the Iinternet and are still developing it speak English (mostly).
Excellent reason: Mr. and Mrs. Yahoo Pushbutton can't buy a Hindi, Mandarin, or Spanish keyboard from Future Shop, Circuit City, Dell, HP, Micro$oft, etc., etc. QWERTY (and thereby English) wins by sheer numbers. (And yes, other languages can be done on a QWERTY keyboard, but do YOU really want to learn extended character sets?)
It seems that every few days or so yet another Intel story will crop up, but instead of being a real story about chips shipping or computers being made with them or actual R&D they're doing, it'll be an Announcement or Press Release about Something Really Cool (TM) that Intel will be making, shipping, and selling Real Soon Now (TM).
Please have a look and see if you can fix this. Thanks.
Re:Breeding population
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TigerCloning
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· Score: 3
The children of these parents will actually be genetic siblings. You don't want to interbreed
siblings for well-known reasons.
Very true, and I considered that point as well, however, this excerpt from the article:
Once DNA damage is assessed and repaired, the
tiger's genetic blueprint will be inserted into the egg of a
close relative, probably the Tasmanian devil or the numbat,
another marsupial, for incubation.
...changes things. What do they mean by "repaired"? I can only assume they's splice in the DNA from "a close relative" to fix it. What does that do? Instantly you have different DNA. If they can do it once, they can do it again, and make many unrelated siblings that happen to be cloned from the same base genetic material, but with repairs.
Of course, there's always the chance that whatever they "fix" will produce something other than the desired tiger. Very close, but genetically different. They will probably never succeed in bringing the tiger back, but they will succeed in creating a new breed based on the species' genetics.
Personally I'd be most interested in starting an aquatic robotics competition, but I haven't found enough people to compete with to
attempt such a thing.
That would be ultra cool.. except that it would be the same as on land, but everything has to be waterproof.;)
One cool thing I can see about underwater battle... a robot has 2 internal cavities, 2 electrodes... and produces their own hydrogen explosion underwater! Imagine literally blowing your opponent out of the water... COOL.
You'll still get to see 77 cool flashes as they plummet through the atmosphere... (And yes, it's 77, not 66 - they had 11 spares, a lot of which are already dead.)
But above all, optoelectronic computing is faster than what's available today. How fast? In a decade, we believe, you will
be able to buy at your local computer shop the equivalent of today's supercomputers.
I hate to break their foward-looking uber-geek bubble, but isn't any one of the Apple G4 considered a "supercomputer" by today's standards? One gigaflop is the cutoff, right? The G4 met it, right? So we can buy "today's" supercomputer TODAY, right???
"Mature, international company seeks community support. Knowledgeable in hardware, software, and support, is OSI-curious. Please respond to P.O. Box..."
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After that, open-source the crack and watch the whole damned thing fall to pieces.
What's worse, they're shooting themselves in the foot. The "contest" (hereafter referred to as "The Sham") runs from Sept. 15 until Oct. 7th. Why that window? Do you REALLY think that if someone is dedicated to cracking whateverthehell it is they're proposing, they'll give up after 3 weeks? Hell no - they'll pick away at it month by month until it's split wide open. Three weeks isn't going to do them a damn bit of good, IMNSHO.
Yup, you're right. As we are all aware enough not to be taken by this, then why on earth is this even a /. story? Oh well..
Oh yeah. Heh-heh... "us", not "um". Sincere apologies.
I'll tell ya why. When I use Netscape and click on my /. bookmark, it takes me right there. Same with my
Freefall bookmark, my
User Friendly bookmark, my
news bookmark, and even my
play bookmark. Direct. No redirects.
But now Micro$oft comes along and says, "Hey, we can make money off this too!" and starts doing redirects with their strong-armed browser market. Load balancing? Hit tracking? Bullshit. Let MY ISP deal with load balancing, or the sites that I'm actually going to (notice none of them are M$). Ditto with hit tracking.
Basically, M$ has no NEED to redirect. They just decided to do it and grab MORE information from those who happen to use IE (not me!!) and yet further bend the Internet public over and have their way with us.
Ummmm... last I checked, "ms" denoted "milliseconds". For microseconds, you have to use "um" in text, unless you can somehow get a lower-cased Greek letter Mu to show up in front of the "s". THAT is microseconds.
Of course, they may as well be the same thing relative to human response times... :)
"Why doesn't it just check the .launch file?"
I keep my furnace fan running 24/7 to keep air circulated, but if you're circulating crappy air, what good is that? The solution is to simply crack a window once in a while. You don't need a gale-force wind whipping through to clean all the air out, just enough so that your apartment can "breathe".
A word of warning, however; if you're right downtown, opening a window may simply allow exhaust fumes to come in instead. If there's a lot of air pollution outside, then no matter what you're pretty screwed, and need to go with an actual air filter.
If you like to vacuum, Filter Queen vacuums are actually rated as air purifiers, and the active carbon filter needs only be changed once a year. So each time you vacuum (or just leaving it running on low for a while) it purifies the air. You can get them used/refurbished rather reasonably, if you look in the right places.
At the risk of being male-centric, I propose this watch to be the de facto standard of what will henceforth be called WOODWARE. :)
As I swallow the grain of salt, I noticed it's stamped "PROOF OF CONCEPT ONLY" on it...
Does this sound like Sealand (more info here) and HavenCo? It sure does to me.
I was pondering at length on this a while back, and had a disturbing though:
What would happen if instead of HavenCo operating on Sealand, suddenly Microsoft picked up from Redmond and plunked itself down on Sealand? What would happen if Microsoft was its own COUNTRY?
"Foreign nationals" has nothing to do with it. If a company has an entry level position they want to fill, they are not going to shell out over twice the salary to get an experienced, older worker to fill that role. That would be absolutely stupid. They will try to find an entry level worker, either domestically, or a foreign national.
Yes, there may be a large number of experienced IT professionals out there. Unfortunately, it is likely NOT the case that they would want to take a salary cut and fill an entry level position. So, what do you do? Increase the number of visas so you can get the entry-level workers you need.
And the last thing anyone needs is another bloody union. "Sorry - I'd patch that code for you, but I'm on my union-mandated break right now. Don't try to patch it yourself, either - that's Union work!!" Shudder.
Otherwise, it would seem that registering any aol*.* domain names would just be harrassing AOL (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, if they keep shit like this up).
- Print.
- File.
- Delete.
You weren't looking for something elegant, were you?They probably just ordered way too many T-shirts, and needed a reason to give them away. Mine's in the mail!
And all of that relates to reading the output of a device you didn't make HOW? You're talking about all the research and development that went into the service behind the device. For all the work you did, you could have sent out a radish-twaddler that read the mind of the user and sent that information back to your server. The CueCat had nothing to do with it.
Yes, you worked hard. But not at developing the CueCat, and not at getting the CueCat to spit out a stream of data when it scanned something. The two are wholly separate issues.
Good idea aside, how often do *you* take your desk apart for modularity? I never have yet. You'd give up a lot of sturdiness by the Lego desk modular, unfortunately.
I want my kitchen island made out of Lego...
Decent reason: the nations that have developed the Iinternet and are still developing it speak English (mostly).
Excellent reason: Mr. and Mrs. Yahoo Pushbutton can't buy a Hindi, Mandarin, or Spanish keyboard from Future Shop, Circuit City, Dell, HP, Micro$oft, etc., etc. QWERTY (and thereby English) wins by sheer numbers. (And yes, other languages can be done on a QWERTY keyboard, but do YOU really want to learn extended character sets?)
It seems that every few days or so yet another Intel story will crop up, but instead of being a real story about chips shipping or computers being made with them or actual R&D they're doing, it'll be an Announcement or Press Release about Something Really Cool (TM) that Intel will be making, shipping, and selling Real Soon Now (TM).
Please have a look and see if you can fix this. Thanks.
Very true, and I considered that point as well, however, this excerpt from the article:
Once DNA damage is assessed and repaired, the tiger's genetic blueprint will be inserted into the egg of a close relative, probably the Tasmanian devil or the numbat, another marsupial, for incubation.
Of course, there's always the chance that whatever they "fix" will produce something other than the desired tiger. Very close, but genetically different. They will probably never succeed in bringing the tiger back, but they will succeed in creating a new breed based on the species' genetics.
Cool.
That would be ultra cool.. except that it would be the same as on land, but everything has to be waterproof. ;)
One cool thing I can see about underwater battle... a robot has 2 internal cavities, 2 electrodes... and produces their own hydrogen explosion underwater! Imagine literally blowing your opponent out of the water... COOL.
You'll still get to see 77 cool flashes as they plummet through the atmosphere... (And yes, it's 77, not 66 - they had 11 spares, a lot of which are already dead.)
I hate to break their foward-looking uber-geek bubble, but isn't any one of the Apple G4 considered a "supercomputer" by today's standards? One gigaflop is the cutoff, right? The G4 met it, right? So we can buy "today's" supercomputer TODAY, right???
"Mature, international company seeks community support. Knowledgeable in hardware, software, and support, is OSI-curious. Please respond to P.O. Box..."
"Hey guys, what should we call our new company?"
"How about.. ummm.." [FART] "Oh, excuse me!"
"Hey, that's it!! Now we just need to make it sound classy..."
"Anal Thunderclap? Magnum G.I. Tract? Sousaphone Orifice? Timpani Gas?"
"Timpanogas! Yeah.."