Or if you REALLY want to piss Win2k off, delete tftp.exe and then immediately make a directory called tftp.exe in its place. It will try to overwrite it but won't be able to. Kind of amusing, anyway.
This is not right. ALL radars show bad values near the radar station. This is not a dust cloud at all. (Unless you believe that there's also a huge dust cloud around, say, Nashville or Houston as well.)
The cloud wouldn't extend that far. However, papers from the blast were seen miles away, and a reporter ten blocks from the explosions said he could taste the dust in the air.
You know what's really improved? The historical stuff. Pull up an article from months ago, and you'll be able to browse the comments in an intelligent manner! Very nice.
Not quite, in that 111/106 is an approximation for pi/3, and not pi. That's fine, though; as an approximation for pi/3, 111/106 is halfway decent.
The scary part about this approximation is that 2pi, a very important number in trigonometry, is 666/106. Now THAT'S scary. (But on the plus side, that means that even if 666 is the sign of the beast, the sine of the sign of the beast is zero.)
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
This is not a coincidence. It is as foretold in the Book of the Subgenius! Linus Torvalds is a perceptive man, much more perceptive than your average "pink", but he got it wrong this time. He has sensed the presence of JHVH-1, but he has foolishly decided to fight back. THIS CANNOT BE DONE. The only path to true Slack, to get EXACTLY WHAT YOU DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE YOU WANTED, is to submit to JHVH-1's plans. He might be an evil alien bastard, but let him pull the psychic strings for you!
Praise "Bob"!
Although you don't think it would fly, surely the point is that they're making use of the functionality of the GPL code, and thus should be subject to all the requirements that the GPL entails.
If not, I don't really see what benefit the GPL provides - companies are essentially free to take from the open source community without giving back anything other than a tiny RPC or IPC wrapper.
Aaargh! You can't do that! The GPL is a license, so the protection it offers comes from precisely what it says. "It would a shame if RPC were allowed" doesn't mean that the GPL magically and implicitly disallows it.
The reverse engineering here says exactly how many. 4 out of 10 different components. RAM, video card, and HD will do it (since HD volume and HD hardware string are counted as 2 different components.)
In fairness, in the current system, each of these pieces of information is run through a hashing function and each is distilled down into a few bits. They don't know your system configuration; they just know what components changed.
What you describes seems more to me like a vision of the future. I mean, WPA seems intrusive to me (and it won't stop piracy), but they need to make this seem mainstream and acceptable first. What you're describing is the next step.
There is a wicked table in there. While it's not surprising to see from Microsoft, it's still a tad bit scary and impressive at the same time.
Various strings are run through a hashing function and are stored in the key you read to the Microsoft rep over the phone (the Installation key). They are:
Your network card's MAC address
Amount of RAM installed
Processor model
Processor serial number
Volume serial number
Hardware ID strings from
Your CD-ROM drive
Your hard drive
Your video card
Your SCSI host adapter
Your IDE controller
These values are thrown together (along with some other values) into a huge bit field. Also, a three-digit random number is thrown into the mix. Because the end result that you read to the phone rep is encrypted, this three digit number causes your code to be entirely different on each install.
Here's the real fun part: The OS also stores a snapshot of your hardware configuration. If you change more than three of these hardware components out? It's time to call Microsoft and re-activate your license.
When you re-activate, naturally you'll have to generate a new Installation Key and they'll be able to see exactly what components you changed out.
Fun, huh?
Unions in a programming job? I doubt it.
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My coworkers seem to look down on unions even more than they do anonymous structs, gotos, and bit shifts for division and multiplication. We're safe.
I'm also in Austin and have played with this. It's great when it works: you tune to channel 999 and you get a pretty wide selection of movies to watch. Unfortunately, I can almost never get it to work. All times I've tried going there except 2, I get an "error initializing file loader".
I know plenty of painful typists complete with wrist guards and wincing who probably won't agree that their symptoms aren't genuine.
The article doesn't claim that the symptoms aren't genuine, just that they might not have a physical cause.
It certainly doesn't bother me to watch a dubbed movie with real live actors. I suspect this is true for most people.
So if the point of watching the movie is to see how seamlessly the computer animation syncs up with the English in the first place, then doesn't that mean that the English is an integral part of the film?
Looks like a place for subtitles.
This is NOT a silly lawsuit...
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...because there is a definite line which Launchcast might have crossed.
Certainly if Launchcast allowed users to directly specify what songs they wanted to hear when, it would clearly be a violation (and if you believe in intellectual property, unethical). If they stuck with true radio-style broadcast, there would clearly be no violation. Their preferences system is somewhere in the middle, and thus might be on the wrong side of the line. Even if the RIAA is proven wrong, this is not a frivolous lawsuit.
This is where a big accident is going to happen which will pretty much kill space tourism for a decade. Tito paid a lot of money, but he was also prepared for the trip -- he went through rigorous training and so forth. His trip doesn't necessarily mean it's time to start offering "cut rate" space flights to any guy with money.
Prediction: They're going to shoot someone into space who's not prepared to be there, some sort of emergency happens and the tourist, who is unprepared for anything to go wrong, dies. And just because someone ran an unsafe space toruism operation, people will get the impression that safe space tourism isn't possible, and that will set the whole thing back years.
Bleah. A reasonable level of safety for a space tourist is more than just taking someone's cash and cramming them in a Soyuz capsule.
Proof of just how clueless the content people are
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I love this quote:
"We've watched what happened in the music world . . . and we are determined to avoid that here," said Preston Padden, executive vice president of government relations for Walt Disney Co.
These people really, truly believe that with the right mix of technology and laws, they'll be able to make solid copy protection. They'll broadcast data over RF into your house, and you'll only be able to watch it on their terms.
Never mind that it only takes one person out of millions to make a copy before the genie is out of the bottle. Never mind that any encrypted media has to be decrypted before it can be viewed. It's just comical, is all.
I used to print out pages and pages of song lyrics for the privacy of my living room (the print on CDs tends to be really small too) or to refer to in the car.
Officer: License and registration, please. Were you even looking where you were going? You were all over the road.
einTier: Yes, well, it's just... you know, there was this Nirvana song on my mix tape, and I didn't know the lyrics, and...
"That's not to say that the index takes up a petabyte. We have several hundred copies of the index," Felton said. "Most of the servers are serving up some fraction of the index." The index is partitioned into individual segments, and queries are routed to the appropriate server based on which segment is likely to hold the answer.
An interesting metric that they don't go into in this article:
4,718 of the servers index pr0n
2,148 of the servers index warez
1,634 of the servers index MP3 sites
1,139 of the servers index various "ate my balls", "all your base", and other joke-of-the-month sites
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You need to up your connection to some form of broadband. Or at least install a second phone line.
Or if you REALLY want to piss Win2k off, delete tftp.exe and then immediately make a directory called tftp.exe in its place. It will try to overwrite it but won't be able to. Kind of amusing, anyway.
This is not right. ALL radars show bad values near the radar station. This is not a dust cloud at all. (Unless you believe that there's also a huge dust cloud around, say, Nashville or Houston as well.)
The cloud wouldn't extend that far. However, papers from the blast were seen miles away, and a reporter ten blocks from the explosions said he could taste the dust in the air.
"Careful, you idiot. I said a funny post, not a blatant one."
"Sorry, sir. Doing my best."
"Who gave that man an account?"
"I did, sir. He's my cousin."
"Who is he?"
"He's a Karma Whore, sir."
"I know that. What's his name?"
"That is his name, sir. Karma Whore... Major Karma Whore."
"And his cousin?"
"He's a Karma Whore, too, sir. Gunner's mate, first class Karma Whore flikx."
"How many Karma Whores have we got on this site, anyhow?"
" YO! "
I knew it. I'm surrounded by Karma Whores. Keep posting, Whores!"
This is addressed in the more recent Welcome To Slashdot 2.2 article.
Basically, users can start up discussions now, which totally remove the need for hidden sids.
You know what's really improved? The historical stuff. Pull up an article from months ago, and you'll be able to browse the comments in an intelligent manner! Very nice.
The scary part about this approximation is that 2pi, a very important number in trigonometry, is 666/106. Now THAT'S scary. (But on the plus side, that means that even if 666 is the sign of the beast, the sine of the sign of the beast is zero.)
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
This is not a coincidence. It is as foretold in the Book of the Subgenius! Linus Torvalds is a perceptive man, much more perceptive than your average "pink", but he got it wrong this time. He has sensed the presence of JHVH-1, but he has foolishly decided to fight back. THIS CANNOT BE DONE. The only path to true Slack, to get EXACTLY WHAT YOU DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE YOU WANTED, is to submit to JHVH-1's plans. He might be an evil alien bastard, but let him pull the psychic strings for you! Praise "Bob"!
If not, I don't really see what benefit the GPL provides - companies are essentially free to take from the open source community without giving back anything other than a tiny RPC or IPC wrapper.
Aaargh! You can't do that! The GPL is a license, so the protection it offers comes from precisely what it says. "It would a shame if RPC were allowed" doesn't mean that the GPL magically and implicitly disallows it.
I need to patent the concept of "I need to patent..." jokes posted on Slashdot. I could make a killing.
The reverse engineering here says exactly how many. 4 out of 10 different components. RAM, video card, and HD will do it (since HD volume and HD hardware string are counted as 2 different components.)
What you describes seems more to me like a vision of the future. I mean, WPA seems intrusive to me (and it won't stop piracy), but they need to make this seem mainstream and acceptable first. What you're describing is the next step.
Various strings are run through a hashing function and are stored in the key you read to the Microsoft rep over the phone (the Installation key). They are:
- Your network card's MAC address
- Amount of RAM installed
- Processor model
- Processor serial number
- Volume serial number
- Hardware ID strings from
- Your CD-ROM drive
- Your hard drive
- Your video card
- Your SCSI host adapter
- Your IDE controller
These values are thrown together (along with some other values) into a huge bit field. Also, a three-digit random number is thrown into the mix. Because the end result that you read to the phone rep is encrypted, this three digit number causes your code to be entirely different on each install.Here's the real fun part: The OS also stores a snapshot of your hardware configuration. If you change more than three of these hardware components out? It's time to call Microsoft and re-activate your license.
When you re-activate, naturally you'll have to generate a new Installation Key and they'll be able to see exactly what components you changed out. Fun, huh?
My coworkers seem to look down on unions even more than they do anonymous structs, gotos, and bit shifts for division and multiplication. We're safe.
I'm also in Austin and have played with this. It's great when it works: you tune to channel 999 and you get a pretty wide selection of movies to watch. Unfortunately, I can almost never get it to work. All times I've tried going there except 2, I get an "error initializing file loader".
I know plenty of painful typists complete with wrist guards and wincing who probably won't agree that their symptoms aren't genuine. The article doesn't claim that the symptoms aren't genuine, just that they might not have a physical cause.
So if the point of watching the movie is to see how seamlessly the computer animation syncs up with the English in the first place, then doesn't that mean that the English is an integral part of the film?
Looks like a place for subtitles.
Certainly if Launchcast allowed users to directly specify what songs they wanted to hear when, it would clearly be a violation (and if you believe in intellectual property, unethical). If they stuck with true radio-style broadcast, there would clearly be no violation. Their preferences system is somewhere in the middle, and thus might be on the wrong side of the line. Even if the RIAA is proven wrong, this is not a frivolous lawsuit.
Prediction: They're going to shoot someone into space who's not prepared to be there, some sort of emergency happens and the tourist, who is unprepared for anything to go wrong, dies. And just because someone ran an unsafe space toruism operation, people will get the impression that safe space tourism isn't possible, and that will set the whole thing back years.
Bleah. A reasonable level of safety for a space tourist is more than just taking someone's cash and cramming them in a Soyuz capsule.
These people really, truly believe that with the right mix of technology and laws, they'll be able to make solid copy protection. They'll broadcast data over RF into your house, and you'll only be able to watch it on their terms.
Never mind that it only takes one person out of millions to make a copy before the genie is out of the bottle. Never mind that any encrypted media has to be decrypted before it can be viewed. It's just comical, is all.
Grass, ash, or trash. Nobody rides for free.
You're never going to gain the requisite skills if you post to /. all day! ;-)
Officer: License and registration, please. Were you even looking where you were going? You were all over the road.
einTier: Yes, well, it's just... you know, there was this Nirvana song on my mix tape, and I didn't know the lyrics, and...