Can anyone say from the diagrams if it actually makes sense, and is doable? I wouldn't mind building one of those during vacation, but can i find instructionon what the each piece does? I'd like to know what the [MCU], [DAC], and [DSP] actually do, and if i have to program them somehow.
You are right! He COULD do that! I propose a restraining order:
Mitnick must keep 500 yards away from Technology, Science, and Religion at all times for the time of his probation.
We would not want him to discover a way to break quantum encryption, discover a new particle, or prove the existence of God, now that he knows how to get our credit card numbers.
Ever hear of Robert Tappan Morris? He is a criminal, he was in jail for the Internet Worm.
But also, as soon as he was released, he started a company dealing with computer security, which became a multi-million startup based on first-hand experience with computer security of its staff. Then he was admitted into a graduate CS program, and as of last fall he is an MIT professor.
Could Mitnick do the same? Maybe not, but preventing him to talk is certainly unusual and perhaps unfair.
Unless of course they think that he is advocating actions for which he was put into custody.
I didn't even know Mitnick was giving lectures, but does anyone know *what* exactly he is talking about? Security? IP Laws? Security Laws? Has anyone seen a transcipt of his speech anywhere around?
Yeah, i suppose you are right. But does it really matter what the results are going to be now? Even if the champion is dethroned, the guys who solved those algorithms are probably guaranteed a job at IBM whenever they want it. As for the officials, let them extend their 15 minutes of fame. After all, because of the controversy, they got another Slashdot mention. 8)
how is "pure science" not a "unique invention"? even engineering equations can be patented and often are. in aircraft construction, even the curves that describe the shape of wings are patented and protected by copyright. how come mathematical work is any different? it may well be solving the same problem, but in a more general/formal way.
the patent should be granted -- the guy does deserve credit for his work. it is the patent law that needs to be revised because it often allows misuse of ownership. like patenting something, waiting until some company gets rich, and suing them for alleged use of patented technology.
am i crazy or did they say a pIII-500? i believe they went as far as to say that the 700 chip is slightly better than pIII-500. i am not quite sure, but they promised crusoe to be a smaller and simpler chip than anything in the pIII range, which is supposed to result in more hertz for the money. However, it seems that they still have the same problem as intel. i take as, eventually, they will hit a hard limit on how many hertz their chip can take, and at that point other chips will be outperforming crusoe. so just maybe the chip is a fancy emulator that not everybody will need. i guess we'll have to wait and see.
nevertheless, 1 watt is impressive. i'd probably get a laptop like that. 8)
the book is actually cheaper there than at fatbrain. ridiculous one-click copyright lawsuits aside, amazon.com is still a pretty good place to buy the byproducts of growing trees.
p.s. i wonder if they are going to sue me for providing a "one-click" method of getting the book at their site. hmm... perhaps even linking is illegal... oh, well, enjoy you new year's!!!
A college back home called their mail server (Solaris) 'uhura'. I can't think of anything better for a dedicated sendmail machine than the name of a communications officer.
in our house we use names varying from FFVIII GF's to books by Terry Hatchet. I know someone who picked the name (tumbolia) for his machine out of 'GEB'. Actually our undergrad lab admins named some 50-60 nt workstations after the simpsons characters. It is quite fun to log onto Dr.MarvinMonroe or Mrs.Lovejoy.
But the prise goes a place where i worked over the summer. Two Sun Servers on it were named 'Cheech' and 'Chong', while 10 or so sparc stations were 'Crashalot', 'Useless', 'Pointless', 'Expendable', etc.
at work i use NT4 on a p133 doorstop with 32 MB of memory (tell my boss to get decent hardware) which was installed by people who do this round the clock (and the box is SP4). i don't even have administrator priviliges on my desktop. anyways, the novell client crashes, yes. but what i've experienced much more frequently is that outlook cannot stay open for more than 2-3 hours. the machine gets progressively slow, and closing outlook doesn't really help. same goes for navigator 4.6 but that has bearable uptimes. I only have to close it when i leave.
i do not know what goes on in the kernel, but i do know that simply killing the application to rid of the memory leak does not help. my machine must be rebooted. not to mention the blue screens i get once a week when i call javac. but that is one is fishy, not quite reproducible on other machines.
just like the double digit year was an oversight. 8) it truly is amazing though that someone actually got that error. what happened? did an error message pop up saying "Your machine has been running for too long?" that'd be hillarious.
what exactly qualifies a bug? or an oversight?
haha... oversight... 8) AC posts leave me laughing for hours sometimes.
a friend of mine tried out linux last spring. before that he used nothing but windows. although he spent a week trying to get X working, he was pleased with his results. and then he said something worth of a fortune file (i was amazed that something like that could come out of someone who has only run linux for a day).
"Before I tried linux I thought that the registry was a good idea... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I crack myself up sometimes."
in short, you reinstall because you can't really modify your registry as easily as linux users can modify their config files (once you know how). and then your machine gets uglier and uglier. for example i can change routers gateways without rebooting, become a router without rebooting (provided i already have the second ethernet card inserted), unload a module, update the driver, and load it again without rebooting, etc, etc, etc.
p.s. i reinstall linux whenever a new version of debian comes out because i don't really care for the upgrade scripts much. plus it gives me the chance of reviewing the selected packages and figuring out what i need and what i am not likely to use anymore. i also love the smell of hard drives formating in the morning. the one bad thing about linux is that i don't get high it much. 8)
well, don't beat yourself up too much. the droid might posses multiple levels of encryption, be able to crack into the spacestation's main computer, and contain information about emperial codes. according to yesterday's feature, some things just have to be closed-source. 8)
...agree with you more. let's make this a Debian vs. SuSE thread. 8)
(* Debian is a truly free ditribution that puts GNU into Linux and will be embracing the egcs compiler with the upcoming 2.2 (potato) release.)
i admit it, i never used SuSE, could someone tell me what the package selection there is and how is it so nice? i have heard people rave about it, but i myself enjoy installing/removing packages with dselect. so why is SuSE better? and i don't care about the ease of system installation because after doing it once with debian and once with redhat i learned that following correct instructions will almost always result in a working machine.
i too have been searching for downloadable suse distributions on suse ftp sites, but never seen anything except the old versions (6.0 and 5.*). everything else appeared briefly on other (pirated?) sites but i was never able to download those completely. no luck i guess.
redhat is more lenient with free distros and downloads methinks. caldera and suse are the two distibutions which do not really embrace the free OS concept as much as i'd like. 8)
with LP's you could play two at once. but the top one had to be sufficiently thin and elastic (back in the day when they made them on magazine covers and other paper think materials), and the bottom one was prefereably hard and thick. that way you could get the interference of the two. the hardness of the lower provided an easy way of distinguishing which one is which. bacically the sound of the top one faded (vibrated sortof) very noticably because it would lay slightly unevenly but the sound of the lower one sound be strong but deader than usual. kind of like listening someone talk through a cloth. i never tried it with three or more records.
i realize this is offtopic but perhaps the AFM head could pick up two layers with appropriate decoding wavelet employed. although there would still be a huge step to go from analog to digital. i don't know anything else about the subject. not a physicist. 8)
...with a cd this small, i could get a boxed-set worth of the backstreet boys and literally shove it up their asses, seeing as how that's where their music came from.
*cough* i apologize for that outburst, but i am just sick of their annoying voices on the radio.
seriously though, i for one would like a storage space that small. a normal sized cd would never fit into a pilot sized computer. with the penny-sized media we can finally make the desktops and the palmtops closer in accessiblity. plus, didn't that russian E2K processor supposedly would provide a desktop-power chip for a pocket-sized computer? (i seem to remember reading that in russian on a page at www.el2000.ru). normal cd's are a little too big. minidiscs are almost the perfect size to carry around, but still they are too big for palmtops. perhaps they could half that size without making the discs too easy to lose.
also, if we make normal sized CD's with fast read (/write?) access, then we will give all the more reason for microsloth to bloat, bloat, bloat, and bloat some more.
every time i think that the people whose opinions i read have sunk to the absolute zero of intelligence, they go on and write a part two of what might have been a good article on an important issue. and totally make an even bigger fool of themselves.
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do we really need chess solved? I mean grandmasters are always saying that for the good of the game we shouldn't develop computers that play it.
besides, there is a much more important question: is every sparting position of FreeCell solvable?
Can anyone say from the diagrams if it actually makes sense, and is doable? I wouldn't mind building one of those during vacation, but can i find instructionon what the each piece does? I'd like to know what the [MCU], [DAC], and [DSP] actually do, and if i have to program them somehow.
Yes, his father was a big shot in the NSA during the Internet Worm, which of course embarassed the whole family.
You are right! He COULD do that! I propose a restraining order:
Mitnick must keep 500 yards away from Technology, Science, and Religion at all times for the time of his probation.
We would not want him to discover a way to break quantum encryption, discover a new particle, or prove the existence of God, now that he knows how to get our credit card numbers.
Ever hear of Robert Tappan Morris? He is a criminal, he was in jail for the Internet Worm.
But also, as soon as he was released, he started a company dealing with computer security, which became a multi-million startup based on first-hand experience with computer security of its staff. Then he was admitted into a graduate CS program, and as of last fall he is an MIT professor.
Could Mitnick do the same? Maybe not, but preventing him to talk is certainly unusual and perhaps unfair.
just mho.
Unless of course they think that he is advocating actions for which he was put into custody.
I didn't even know Mitnick was giving lectures, but does anyone know *what* exactly he is talking about? Security? IP Laws? Security Laws? Has anyone seen a transcipt of his speech anywhere around?
3.1x, 95/98, NT4, or W2K... those are not all supported/working at the same time. But then, linux users rarely distinguish between those either. 8)
Yeah, i suppose you are right. But does it really matter what the results are going to be now? Even if the champion is dethroned, the guys who solved those algorithms are probably guaranteed a job at IBM whenever they want it. As for the officials, let them extend their 15 minutes of fame. After all, because of the controversy, they got another Slashdot mention. 8)
how is "pure science" not a "unique invention"? even engineering equations can be patented and often are. in aircraft construction, even the curves that describe the shape of wings are patented and protected by copyright. how come mathematical work is any different? it may well be solving the same problem, but in a more general/formal way.
the patent should be granted -- the guy does deserve credit for his work. it is the patent law that needs to be revised because it often allows misuse of ownership. like patenting something, waiting until some company gets rich, and suing them for alleged use of patented technology.
am i crazy or did they say a pIII-500? i believe they went as far as to say that the 700 chip is slightly better than pIII-500. i am not quite sure, but they promised crusoe to be a smaller and simpler chip than anything in the pIII range, which is supposed to result in more hertz for the money. However, it seems that they still have the same problem as intel. i take as, eventually, they will hit a hard limit on how many hertz their chip can take, and at that point other chips will be outperforming crusoe. so just maybe the chip is a fancy emulator that not everybody will need. i guess we'll have to wait and see.
nevertheless, 1 watt is impressive. i'd probably get a laptop like that. 8)
here is a gem:
"I love these *real* saturdays. They are so relaxing. Not like those *fake* saturdays that almost got me fired."
err... that's 26 letters. of course the spirit of the message is what you said. still you may need to look at a few more pages.
the book is actually cheaper there than at fatbrain. ridiculous one-click copyright lawsuits aside, amazon.com is still a pretty good place to buy the byproducts of growing trees.
here is the link to the book.
p.s. i wonder if they are going to sue me for providing a "one-click" method of getting the book at their site. hmm... perhaps even linking is illegal... oh, well, enjoy you new year's!!!
A college back home called their mail server (Solaris) 'uhura'. I can't think of anything better for a dedicated sendmail machine than the name of a communications officer.
in our house we use names varying from FFVIII GF's to books by Terry Hatchet. I know someone who picked the name (tumbolia) for his machine out of 'GEB'. Actually our undergrad lab admins named some 50-60 nt workstations after the simpsons characters. It is quite fun to log onto Dr.MarvinMonroe or Mrs.Lovejoy.
But the prise goes a place where i worked over the summer. Two Sun Servers on it were named 'Cheech' and 'Chong', while 10 or so sparc stations were 'Crashalot', 'Useless', 'Pointless', 'Expendable', etc.
at work i use NT4 on a p133 doorstop with 32 MB of memory (tell my boss to get decent hardware) which was installed by people who do this round the clock (and the box is SP4). i don't even have administrator priviliges on my desktop. anyways, the novell client crashes, yes. but what i've experienced much more frequently is that outlook cannot stay open for more than 2-3 hours. the machine gets progressively slow, and closing outlook doesn't really help. same goes for navigator 4.6 but that has bearable uptimes. I only have to close it when i leave.
i do not know what goes on in the kernel, but i do know that simply killing the application to rid of the memory leak does not help. my machine must be rebooted. not to mention the blue screens i get once a week when i call javac. but that is one is fishy, not quite reproducible on other machines.
just like the double digit year was an oversight. 8) it truly is amazing though that someone actually got that error. what happened? did an error message pop up saying "Your machine has been running for too long?" that'd be hillarious.
what exactly qualifies a bug? or an oversight?
haha... oversight... 8) AC posts leave me laughing for hours sometimes.
a friend of mine tried out linux last spring. before that he used nothing but windows. although he spent a week trying to get X working, he was pleased with his results. and then he said something worth of a fortune file (i was amazed that something like that could come out of someone who has only run linux for a day).
"Before I tried linux I thought that the registry was a good idea... BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I crack myself up sometimes."
in short, you reinstall because you can't really modify your registry as easily as linux users can modify their config files (once you know how). and then your machine gets uglier and uglier. for example i can change routers gateways without rebooting, become a router without rebooting (provided i already have the second ethernet card inserted), unload a module, update the driver, and load it again without rebooting, etc, etc, etc.
p.s. i reinstall linux whenever a new version of debian comes out because i don't really care for the upgrade scripts much. plus it gives me the chance of reviewing the selected packages and figuring out what i need and what i am not likely to use anymore. i also love the smell of hard drives formating in the morning. the one bad thing about linux is that i don't get high it much. 8)
well, don't beat yourself up too much. the droid might posses multiple levels of encryption, be able to crack into the spacestation's main computer, and contain information about emperial codes. according to yesterday's feature, some things just have to be closed-source. 8)
my profile is that of a mix with three parts Jedi (Yoda, Qui, and Kenobi), one part Han Solo, and one part Wookie.
how is that for a geek? 8)
...agree with you more. let's make this a Debian vs. SuSE thread. 8)
(* Debian is a truly free ditribution that puts GNU into Linux and will be embracing the egcs compiler with the upcoming 2.2 (potato) release.)
i admit it, i never used SuSE, could someone tell me what the package selection there is and how is it so nice? i have heard people rave about it, but i myself enjoy installing/removing packages with dselect. so why is SuSE better? and i don't care about the ease of system installation because after doing it once with debian and once with redhat i learned that following correct instructions will almost always result in a working machine.
tia, mike
i too have been searching for downloadable suse distributions on suse ftp sites, but never seen anything except the old versions (6.0 and 5.*). everything else appeared briefly on other (pirated?) sites but i was never able to download those completely. no luck i guess.
redhat is more lenient with free distros and downloads methinks. caldera and suse are the two distibutions which do not really embrace the free OS concept as much as i'd like. 8)
even-numbered means it is stable. much better than shipping with the unstable odd-numbered versions. 8)
with LP's you could play two at once. but the top one had to be sufficiently thin and elastic (back in the day when they made them on magazine covers and other paper think materials), and the bottom one was prefereably hard and thick. that way you could get the interference of the two. the hardness of the lower provided an easy way of distinguishing which one is which. bacically the sound of the top one faded (vibrated sortof) very noticably because it would lay slightly unevenly but the sound of the lower one sound be strong but deader than usual. kind of like listening someone talk through a cloth. i never tried it with three or more records.
i realize this is offtopic but perhaps the AFM head could pick up two layers with appropriate decoding wavelet employed. although there would still be a huge step to go from analog to digital. i don't know anything else about the subject. not a physicist. 8)
...with a cd this small, i could get a boxed-set worth of the backstreet boys and literally shove it up their asses, seeing as how that's where their music came from.
*cough* i apologize for that outburst, but i am just sick of their annoying voices on the radio.
seriously though, i for one would like a storage space that small. a normal sized cd would never fit into a pilot sized computer. with the penny-sized media we can finally make the desktops and the palmtops closer in accessiblity. plus, didn't that russian E2K processor supposedly would provide a desktop-power chip for a pocket-sized computer? (i seem to remember reading that in russian on a page at www.el2000.ru). normal cd's are a little too big. minidiscs are almost the perfect size to carry around, but still they are too big for palmtops. perhaps they could half that size without making the discs too easy to lose.
also, if we make normal sized CD's with fast read (/write?) access, then we will give all the more reason for microsloth to bloat, bloat, bloat, and bloat some more.
every time i think that the people whose opinions i read have sunk to the absolute zero of intelligence, they go on and write a part two of what might have been a good article on an important issue. and totally make an even bigger fool of themselves.
if (me.isGeek() && me.isAnarchist()) {
doWhatJonSays(me);
blowBrainsOut(me);
}