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Aww, so Infineon, Micron, Samsung and all the others fix DRAM prices eh ? well SCREW them bastards. Let's all boycott RAM, let's all run our entire systems in SWAP !! That'll teach them !
Third, programmers ought to build systems that support an "undo" function (similar to those in word-processing programs), so operators can correct their mistakes. Last, computer scientists should develop the ability to inject test errors; these would permit the evaluation of system behavior and assist in operator training.
[WARNING]
You have installed Microsoft[tm] Windows[tm]. Would you like to undo your mistake, or are you simply injecting test errors on your system ?
I love everything Linux, but seriously, what will my secretary do when her CD is stuck in the drive despite hitting the eject button furiously, and she doesn't know how to get it out ? And yes, I know you can learn Linux and it's not that hard and yada yada, but she's already taken months to leave her typewritter and get going under Windows. You think my secretary is an old thing from another generation that has become rare ? think again.
So, yeepee-doo for Linux, let Linux take over the world, but please leave my secretary under Windows so she can do her work.
The border of a secured page may contain information--such as the names of all the dogs that someone has ever owned
Hmm, okay, so let's say I make a Microsoft-ish spoof page with a border that has "king", "snoopy" or "brutus" all around, and half the visitors will recognise their page with their unique pooch's name on it, and will give me their credit card number in total confidence. Hmmm....
When rappers scratch, they move the LP back and forth. So, what happens during the backward stroke, when the record is played backward ? does Minder Music pay Dr. Dre ? if the record is scratch slowly, does Dr. Dre pays Minder Music slowly, by installments ?
Seriously though, this music copyright business is seriously messed up. I wonder if African tribes and australian Aboriginas realize they're sitting on a gold mine, that they should start collecting on their millenia-old drum "samples" copyrights.
This is surely a relief for the masses here that longed for X support for IPV6. Or the contrary?
I don't care about IPv6, you don't care about IPv6, my grandmother doesn't care about IPv6 and 99.99% people don't care either. And even fewer care about X supporting IPv6 (hi guys). But one day in the future, you may care, when IPv6 spreads out, and if you happen to want X working that day you'll be glad.
Some dude at Microsoft, echoing what many people thought at the time, said nobody needed more than 640K in their computer. Just look at how much RAM you have today...
Of course, but I mean it's not a security tool per se, it's a general purpose tool that happens to be usable for security purposes. Kind of reading/var/log/messages actually:-)
During this two-day interdisciplinary conference in Brussels, near and in the European Parliament, we will bring together programmers, engineers, entrepreneurs, law scholars, economists and politicians
I think we'll soon see XOR masks patented in the EU...
[Epson's Jim Hall] questioned TI's business motives for bringing such a study to light (pardon the pun) at this time, especially now that the low-cost projector market segment is burgeoning
Annoying eh Jimbo ? whatever TI's motives, maybe you expected to grab marketshare with slightly crummy cheap projectors, not telling anyone about the flaws, then sell everybody new projectors after the old ones have become obviously tainted, pretending you didn't know about the defects in the first generation ?
It almost sounds like what a certain OS manufacturer has done years back.
I have the feeling the students didn't really settle without pressure. Just imagine :
Student in deep shit : But Mom, Dad, the RIAA is evil, we can't let'em get away with this ! Dad of students in deep shit : Oh DAMMIT ALL TO HELL AND BACK son, can't you see ? you can get off easy ! You should think the RIAA is pretty leniant, letting you off that easy, you computer pirates. My God, don't you know what you did to your mother when she learned you was a computer pirate... S.I.D.S. : a pirate ? I ain't no pirate, I just d/led songs the RIAA overcharges anyway ! D.O.S.I.D.S. : oh fuck I've had more than enough of this computer geek crap. You will sign the settlement, it's enough the whole neighborhood knows about my son being a fooking hacker. S.I.D.S. : but dad, you misunderstand, it's not... D.O.S.I.D.S. : and you'll make excuses to Mr. Valenti at court, and you better stop reading that Slash Duck site all day long and get your degree ! ...etc...
I still use my old Matrox Millenium I bought in 1995 for $300 (if I remember correctly). Nowadays there are graphics adapters going for $70 that probably have more power and memory than the P200 that houses the Matrox Millenium. Moore's law never ceases to amaze me...
With the huge lump of cash you'd use to buy the thing to watch 3D-porn and jerk off in front of it, you could pay a real woman to come to your place and show you her lifesize 3D show with TruFeel[tm] and Smell-O-Vision[tm] technology...
One of them is a full blood assembled-from-spare-parts steed hidden in the cupboard by the toilets that talks to me through an old X terminal (absolutely noiseless) and an old Tosh laptop that's noisy like a quiet 1997 laptop but that I can't hear above the ambient noise level in the bar I usually use it in.
I'm constantly chasing noisy equipment in my surrounding, and have been doing so for years because I suffer from hyperacusis and chronic tinnitus. Those are my time-tested solutions to the problem of noisy PCs, and I bet it's a lot cheaper than real silent PCs, and I'm pretty sure people who truly can't stand noisy computers have already devised their own solutions too.
"Elton John, Billy Joel, Ozzy Osbourne, Stevie Nick s, The Offspring, The Eagles, Weezer, and plenty of other bands"
so basically all the old farts : what does that tell us ? that the older artists get, the more they realize how much the RIAA shafted them (and don't even tell Elton John about that !). Of course, that comment only applies to *real* artists, not fake teen bands that are direct products of the RIAA : if Britney Spear lasts beyond her first wrinkles as an "artist", she'll probably miss her RIAA-generated glory days dearly, when she finds out she actually needs talent to make it without them.
I pay $20 for cable TV every month through a deal my neighborhood struck with AT&T Broadband (read : the majority of idiot around where I live have imposed this shit to people who wanted something else). Net result : my channel offering is the crappiest I've ever seen, and all the remaining good channels have been taken away slowly one after the other by AT&T-B without anybody being able to complain about it.
Now I guess I'll have only the Home Shopping Network, the weather channel, and the 3 (*3*!) religious-oriented channels left before I can finish posting this. Oh well, time to sell that TV and the TiVo and start reading again...
"Jack Valenti predicts that Congress will require copy-protection controls in nearly all consumer electronic devices and PCs. The lobbyist nonpareil for the Motion Picture Association of America delivered a stark warning to technology firms on Monday : Move quickly to choose standards for wrapping digital content in uncopyable layers of encryption or the federal government will do it for you."
There was another guy in Chicago in the '30s with an Italian-sounding name who used to go around businesses saying "accept our protection or something bad might happen to you".
Jack, you and your lobbyist goons should be sued for spreading thinly disguised threats like your do. Your pathetic schemes will end you making everybody's life miserable just because you don't know how to make a buck without twisting people's wrists. I say get fsck you with a steel wire brush...
"Check out this review of the FIC Aquapad. It has a 500MHz Transmeta Crusoe CPU"
Okay, I have to ask : why so much power in a device like this ? I know faster is better, and you can't stop progress, yadda yadda, but exactly who is this destined to ? Meteorologists who need to get tomorrow's forecast while on the plane ? Serial killers on the run who happens to like finding large prime numbers as a hobby ? Linux geeks who want to compile their kernel in the john ?
Seriously, the only explanation I can come up with is the thing is designed to run XP, but it doesn't. Makes you wonder how Palms got away with a lousy 68K CPU for so long...
"Stop saying all people with weight problems are like that because they eat like pigs."
Absolutely right ! and also, sometimes, weight problems are not problems at all.
I personally weight over 250 lbs, I'm about 6 feet tall, and most of my overweight is not muscle by any mean. By today's medical standards, while I'm not grossly overweight, I believe I am considered obese.
*but*
I do 3000 miles a year on my bike, I play pool semi-professionally (and believe me, when you have to stay on your feet and bend over that pool table for hours every day, it is a sport), I regularly go to the swimming pool, my blood pressure, cholesterol level and heart rythms are perfect, and I eat healthy and reasonably (healthy food, like a varied diet of everything in healthy proportions, not Weight Watcher crap).
Do I have a problem ? possibly, I might have knee problems later in life, and other side effect of overweight, but I guess it's no worse than having a tendency to develop skin cancer, or arthritis, and everybody is born with something wrong somewhere. But am I sick ? hell no! I'm just heavier than average. I guess I'll never be a ballerina, but I think I can get over the disappointment.
Seems to me that the most secure way to do wireless networking is to set up encrypted tunnels :
No bad guy will ever be able to use the network anyway.
You have the choice of encryption policy you want to use and you're in control on how secure you want the network to be.
The overhead of encrypting the packet headers is avoided (granted, the card is supposed to do that transparently, but still I have seen significant slowdowns in lag and throughput when playing with WEP).
The only drawbacks I can think of with doing your own protocol-level encryption are :
Bad guys can still see your bastion host or VPN gateway in clear and have a go at it (DoS or otherwise), and script kiddies might want to have a try because they think it's in clear, while when they see WEP in place they might not even try.
You have to set up a VPN and the infrastructure that goes with it (duh) while you don't have to with WEP.
It's a little harder for Windows users to use your service, if you use PPTP, or it's impossible altogether if you use something Windows doesn't understand, or it's costly because you have to buy third-party Windows VPN software (I don't deal with Windows users, thank God, so problem solved for me).
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Aww, so Infineon, Micron, Samsung and all the others fix DRAM prices eh ? well SCREW them bastards. Let's all boycott RAM, let's all run our entire systems in SWAP !! That'll teach them !
[WARNING]
You have installed Microsoft[tm] Windows[tm]. Would you like to undo your mistake, or are you simply injecting test errors on your system ?
[Undo] [Continue testing]
One reason :
/dev/hdd /cdrom
unmount
I love everything Linux, but seriously, what will my secretary do when her CD is stuck in the drive despite hitting the eject button furiously, and she doesn't know how to get it out ? And yes, I know you can learn Linux and it's not that hard and yada yada, but she's already taken months to leave her typewritter and get going under Windows. You think my secretary is an old thing from another generation that has become rare ? think again.
So, yeepee-doo for Linux, let Linux take over the world, but please leave my secretary under Windows so she can do her work.
Hmm, okay, so let's say I make a Microsoft-ish spoof page with a border that has "king", "snoopy" or "brutus" all around, and half the visitors will recognise their page with their unique pooch's name on it, and will give me their credit card number in total confidence. Hmmm ....
Sounds like a crappy idea actually.
When rappers scratch, they move the LP back and forth. So, what happens during the backward stroke, when the record is played backward ? does Minder Music pay Dr. Dre ? if the record is scratch slowly, does Dr. Dre pays Minder Music slowly, by installments ?
Seriously though, this music copyright business is seriously messed up. I wonder if African tribes and australian Aboriginas realize they're sitting on a gold mine, that they should start collecting on their millenia-old drum "samples" copyrights.
I don't care about IPv6, you don't care about IPv6, my grandmother doesn't care about IPv6 and 99.99% people don't care either. And even fewer care about X supporting IPv6 (hi guys). But one day in the future, you may care, when IPv6 spreads out, and if you happen to want X working that day you'll be glad.
Some dude at Microsoft, echoing what many people thought at the time, said nobody needed more than 640K in their computer. Just look at how much RAM you have today ...
Of course, but I mean it's not a security tool per se, it's a general purpose tool that happens to be usable for security purposes. Kind of reading /var/log/messages actually :-)
Ethereal == tcpdump with graphical interface. Incredibly nice tool, but hardly a security tool.
I think we'll soon see XOR masks patented in the EU ...
The RIAA paid $18,000 for the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee to travel to Taiwan and Thailand
Now you know what they needed those students' money for.
Annoying eh Jimbo ? whatever TI's motives, maybe you expected to grab marketshare with slightly crummy cheap projectors, not telling anyone about the flaws, then sell everybody new projectors after the old ones have become obviously tainted, pretending you didn't know about the defects in the first generation ?
It almost sounds like what a certain OS manufacturer has done years back.
Sorry I meant Hillary Rosen, not Jack Valenti. Same shit, different gender ...
Student in deep shit : But Mom, Dad, the RIAA is evil, we can't let'em get away with this ! ... ...
...etc...
Dad of students in deep shit : Oh DAMMIT ALL TO HELL AND BACK son, can't you see ? you can get off easy ! You should think the RIAA is pretty leniant, letting you off that easy, you computer pirates. My God, don't you know what you did to your mother when she learned you was a computer pirate
S.I.D.S. : a pirate ? I ain't no pirate, I just d/led songs the RIAA overcharges anyway !
D.O.S.I.D.S. : oh fuck I've had more than enough of this computer geek crap. You will sign the settlement, it's enough the whole neighborhood knows about my son being a fooking hacker.
S.I.D.S. : but dad, you misunderstand, it's not
D.O.S.I.D.S. : and you'll make excuses to Mr. Valenti at court, and you better stop reading that Slash Duck site all day long and get your degree !
I still use my old Matrox Millenium I bought in 1995 for $300 (if I remember correctly). Nowadays there are graphics adapters going for $70 that probably have more power and memory than the P200 that houses the Matrox Millenium. Moore's law never ceases to amaze me ...
With the huge lump of cash you'd use to buy the thing to watch 3D-porn and jerk off in front of it, you could pay a real woman to come to your place and show you her lifesize 3D show with TruFeel[tm] and Smell-O-Vision[tm] technology ...
One of them is a full blood assembled-from-spare-parts steed hidden in the cupboard by the toilets that talks to me through an old X terminal (absolutely noiseless) and an old Tosh laptop that's noisy like a quiet 1997 laptop but that I can't hear above the ambient noise level in the bar I usually use it in.
I'm constantly chasing noisy equipment in my surrounding, and have been doing so for years because I suffer from hyperacusis and chronic tinnitus. Those are my time-tested solutions to the problem of noisy PCs, and I bet it's a lot cheaper than real silent PCs, and I'm pretty sure people who truly can't stand noisy computers have already devised their own solutions too.
so basically all the old farts : what does that tell us ? that the older artists get, the more they realize how much the RIAA shafted them (and don't even tell Elton John about that !). Of course, that comment only applies to *real* artists, not fake teen bands that are direct products of the RIAA : if Britney Spear lasts beyond her first wrinkles as an "artist", she'll probably miss her RIAA-generated glory days dearly, when she finds out she actually needs talent to make it without them.
If this device ends up running XP-Embedded, astronauts will need a way to contact Redmond to get an activation key ...
Now I guess I'll have only the Home Shopping Network, the weather channel, and the 3 (*3*!) religious-oriented channels left before I can finish posting this. Oh well, time to sell that TV and the TiVo and start reading again ...
There was another guy in Chicago in the '30s with an Italian-sounding name who used to go around businesses saying "accept our protection or something bad might happen to you".
Jack, you and your lobbyist goons should be sued for spreading thinly disguised threats like your do. Your pathetic schemes will end you making everybody's life miserable just because you don't know how to make a buck without twisting people's wrists. I say get fsck you with a steel wire brush ...
Okay, I have to ask : why so much power in a device like this ? I know faster is better, and you can't stop progress, yadda yadda, but exactly who is this destined to ? Meteorologists who need to get tomorrow's forecast while on the plane ? Serial killers on the run who happens to like finding large prime numbers as a hobby ? Linux geeks who want to compile their kernel in the john ?
Seriously, the only explanation I can come up with is the thing is designed to run XP, but it doesn't. Makes you wonder how Palms got away with a lousy 68K CPU for so long ...
Absolutely right ! and also, sometimes, weight problems are not problems at all.
I personally weight over 250 lbs, I'm about 6 feet tall, and most of my overweight is not muscle by any mean. By today's medical standards, while I'm not grossly overweight, I believe I am considered obese.
*but*
I do 3000 miles a year on my bike, I play pool semi-professionally (and believe me, when you have to stay on your feet and bend over that pool table for hours every day, it is a sport), I regularly go to the swimming pool, my blood pressure, cholesterol level and heart rythms are perfect, and I eat healthy and reasonably (healthy food, like a varied diet of everything in healthy proportions, not Weight Watcher crap).
Do I have a problem ? possibly, I might have knee problems later in life, and other side effect of overweight, but I guess it's no worse than having a tendency to develop skin cancer, or arthritis, and everybody is born with something wrong somewhere. But am I sick ? hell no! I'm just heavier than average. I guess I'll never be a ballerina, but I think I can get over the disappointment.
No bad guy will ever be able to use the network anyway.
You have the choice of encryption policy you want to use and you're in control on how secure you want the network to be.
The overhead of encrypting the packet headers is avoided (granted, the card is supposed to do that transparently, but still I have seen significant slowdowns in lag and throughput when playing with WEP).
The only drawbacks I can think of with doing your own protocol-level encryption are :
Bad guys can still see your bastion host or VPN gateway in clear and have a go at it (DoS or otherwise), and script kiddies might want to have a try because they think it's in clear, while when they see WEP in place they might not even try.
You have to set up a VPN and the infrastructure that goes with it (duh) while you don't have to with WEP.
It's a little harder for Windows users to use your service, if you use PPTP, or it's impossible altogether if you use something Windows doesn't understand, or it's costly because you have to buy third-party Windows VPN software (I don't deal with Windows users, thank God, so problem solved for me).
but unlike the original, it doesn't run on my 386 :-(