I think Microsoft is working a similar feature. But the panic number calls Redmond, not your house. Just wait for the next XP security update.
I'd love to have something like this running. Are they any current security programs that do things like this? I would need it for Windows and Linux.
Now if only I could have it run in the BIOS. Imagine if on the bios level, without a proper key or password or whatever, if the hard drive was removed and replaced, it would then call a panic number whenever connected. That'd be neat.
The speculation in Hollywood circles is that a young, hot stud like Brad Pitt might take the lead (Indy) role.
Screw Brad Pitt. Brendan Fraiser has already been Indy in the two Mummy movies. Give him a better script and a better director and he could easily fill Ford's shoes in the role.
Or, AOL really don't want to do it at all, but will consider it a last resort.
They might have floated this idea to the public as a little jab a Microsoft to say, "If you really want to keep playing hardball, then we can, too" and hope that this makes negotiations with them a little bit easier.
AOL might work to surreptitiously keep this rumor alive for a while, not because they are seriously considering it, but to use as a stick for Microsoft.
The ongoing hypocricy astounds me. Most Linux users don't seem to really want Linux to succeed.
It's not hypocricy. If Democrats wanted to vote for a winner, they should have voted for Bush.
No? They didn't want to vote for a winner? Of course they did, but they wanted to win for the right reasons.
I'm a fan of linux and oss in general for, among other things, the anti-corporate spirit that it springs from and thrives on. If AOL bought RH, that spirit would be gone.
Corporations exist only the seperate me from my money.
Linux exists so that I don't have to let a corporation separate me from my money. It's free in every sense of the term.
The two goals don't mix. I use RH now, but if AOL buys them, I'll switch to SUSE in a heartbeat.
For a democracy to truly work it requires an educated populace that is well informed about the issues of the day and participates in electoral activities frequently so as to give politicians feedback on what actions they like and dislike.
True, but the breadth and scope of government action makes it impossible to a person to be well-informed on the issues. The government is too big, too powerful, and does to much for individuals to track more than an small percentage of it. After all, most of us are busy working 40-50 hrs weeks, raising kids, paying bills, etc.
It's not an excuse, it's a fact. I follow what I can, but I know I only get part of the story -- and that's on the issues I follow!
For others who might have once been interested, once they realized just how big government is, they wrote off their involvment as a waste of their time -- apathy.
I don't know the solution, but a smaller government where people could fathom that their input did make a difference would a good start.
I do feel bad for the show and Duchovney. He is a very likeable actor, however, he has been severely typecasted... I don't even know if Gillian Anderson can make the break, but she probably has a better chance.
Anderson could whistle dixie for all I care, so long as she does it nude.
I'd be happy to highlight people who match a particular criteria - you know SELECT * FROM foobar WHERE X=Y and all that. But he couldn't give me any criteria. He just wanted this guy's name highlighted. I could have screamed! I ended up putting a column in the database called highlight.
This is my world as well.
True Story:
When I first started in programming (which isn't that long ago) the alpha geek at the time made a comment that he hates other people using the software he writes.
I was taken aback by the statement. I said to him: But isn't that why you write software, to solve problems and help people do things?
He replies: No, I write software because I like to write software. I like doing cool things. When users start using the software, all they do is complain and ask for more features.
I didn't reply, thinking it was a pompous thing to say.
How little did I know then.
This alpha geek is no longer doing applications development (which he said was "boring") and is now doing linux kernel hacking for embedded systems, I believe, where I'm sure he's doing a great job.
I'm by no means an alpha geek, but I now understand his position. I don't fully agree with him, but I do understand.
When searching for content on the gnutella network, a lot of the results come back showing the host as 192.168.* 10.0.*, which means they are behind a firewall or otherwise not directly routable. In such a case, the user may be unable to correct it, or unaware of the issue entirely
I was like this for about a week before I realized why I wasn't getting any uploads. I had to open up port 6346 on my home network (linksys router). Also, Napshare lets me "force local ip" to my firewall/ external ip (assigned by RoadRunner). The linksys router does port forwarding on outside requests, so only one computer on my home network can share on that port.
This thread reminded me that RoadRunner had expired my old ip address and assigned me another and I had forgotten to update my gnutella client to reflect to new ip. So for the past few weeks or so, I had been one of the "non-sharing" people by simple oversight.
I doubt most limewire/bearshare users know any of this stuff. When running a gnutella client from work, people couldn't do this even if knew about it and wanted to.
There is a major flaw in all P2P software, and it has nothing to do with the coding. More people tend to want to take than recieve. I remember seeing a line graph on LimeWire's page (I think?) that showed a monthly progression of the number of people sharing files compared to thenumber of people downloading files. The 'downloaders' were outweighing the 'uploaders' by a HUGE ammount.
If everyone was willing to share their files, then there would be no such problem with P2P programs.
our cable bill for extended Basic just went up to $50/month."
Something like that happened to me as well, except they also yanked HBO 2 off of the extented basic as they upped the price. It was about that time I took notice of the various deals DirecTV was offering. $30-something for gobs more channels, as well as deals on hardware (which you own instead of rent) and installation.
Our cable goes at the end of January. We've already sent the cable notice. We figured we watched *maybe* an hour of cable-only programming per day. Most of the time we watch PBS (morning shows for the kids).
If I run an antenna, I get PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, UPN, and WB. Free.
Basically, it came down to this: Comedy Central moved their nightly SNL reruns to some other timeslot than 6:00 and started plugging their new lame game show Beat The Geeks. Then I realized, more-or-less, I was paying $50 a month to watch SNL reruns when I get home from work.
Screw that.
I'll miss FoxNews, but I get most of my news online anyway. I'll miss The History Channel, but I can learn more and better by *reading a book* on the subject during the time I would have been watching "History vs. Hollywood"
I just couldn't find a compelling reason to keep cable. Some of the stuff on cable didn't even make sense.
TVLand? I pay for a channel that has weekend long Beverly Hillbillies marathons? I programmed that channel out, but come on! A weekend Beverly Hillbillies marathon?! People watch that? People pay to watch that?
Miss Cleo? Electronic "AbDoer" whatever-it-is?
Cable needed to go. Even if it's free, I now want it out of my house. It's only a distraction and offers nothing of value to me.
Maybe the effort should go into producing a good, free implementation of a document editor to produce.doc documents, thereby using.doc against microsoft?
This is not a good strategy. Your free implemenation is only good until MS releases the next version of Word, and puts the OSS community perpetually in the role of playing catch-up.
"Congress intended the existence of a disability to be determined in such a case-by-case manner."
This doesn't mean that carpel tunnel isn't a disablity you dolts, it's a very serious problem. This woman's case simply didn't prove that her affliction was serious enough for her to be considered under the ADA.
That's not rule by law. That's rule by lawyers -- which is very lame.
1. What is lzip? Lzip is the most advanced file compression utility ever conceived. It is literally years ahead of gzip (though admittedly gzip was around first), and makes use of mathematical transforms the bzip developers have never even heard of. The practical upshot of this is that when you use lzip, you get the best compression on the planet. Smaller file sizes; faster compression/uncompression times.
Used properly, lzip is capable of reducing a file down to 0% of its original size. Yes, you read that correctly: 0% of its original size. And regardless of file size, this can be done in constant time. Now do you see why some people are calling lzip the "holy grail" of file utilities?
2. What makes lzip different from gzip/bzip2? Well, other than the performance benefits mentioned above, the real difference is that lzip uses a "lossy" compression scheme. Most other file compression utilities use a "lossless" compression scheme, mostly because the lossless algorithms are better understood and simpler mathematically (most programmers take shortcuts, particularly in areas that involve a lot of math).
This has two side effects. The first is that files compressed with lzip cannot be restored to their original state -- this is the "lossy" in lossy compression. The second is that the performance is vastly improved. Why don't go go back up to question number one and read that second paragraph again. We're talking about a constant-time algorithm that can reduce a file down to 0% of its original size. What's not to like?
The real accomplishment was using a Bose-Einstein condensate to very easily construct an arrangement of atoms that would otherwise be technologically very hard. That they did it by means of a quantum phase transition (adjusting the parameters of the potential to produce a qualitative different wave function) is cool, but not exactly new.
I agree totally. Like when Jerry hit Tom over the head with a giant mallet and smashed his head into a pancake? I was like, Bugs Bunny did that to Yosemite Sam 20 years earlier! It was still funny when the eyes bugged out like spring coils, but it wasn't new at all. So I know exactly where you're coming from.
It is all over comedy central too. I watch that channel more than any other (by far) and Impostor is being promoed to death on that channel as well.
I would have thought comedy central, sci-fi, and dimension (film distributor) was all owned by the same company, but that is not the case, so actual money did change in promoting this movie.
I don't watch too much tv, but you would think that Disney would plug the movie on ABC and ESPN, which it also owns, especially since they are hurting for cash right now. Why not promote in house?
How is this related to Impostor? Only tangentially. But be aware of the Big Six media companies. Three are involved in this film. It's more than six, but the other companies are AOL/TimeWarner, Sony, NewsCorp, and Bertelsmann (of Napster fame).
Others would add GE to the list, because they own NBC.
In any case, the entirety of our information and entertainment world comes nearly exclusively through those 8 companies.
Those screenshotd look pretty impressive. So impressive, in fact, I'm that skeptical, suspecting they might be mockups. If they are that far along, why don't they have betas anywhere?
The site is slashdotted now. Has anyone seen any pricing info on the product? They're calling it "affordable" on the home page. Are they contributing code back to GPL like Ximian?
You've done an outstanding job of making it difficult, if not impossible for the people who are running slashdot "light" to mark a person a friend or foe.
I have to agree. I just discovered "lite" mode because of this post. Nice. The alt text for the icon is "User Relationship". Why not just dump the icon altogether and have a text link of "Relation: Friend" or "User is: Neutral"?
Seems to me that it's just if you specify someone as a friend, the person;'s posts become boosted by some number of points. Set the person as a foe, it removes points.
Doesn't seem to be much more to it.
Is this behavior documented somewhere? Did I miss a link? Or is figuring it out supposed to be part of the fun? .
Hallmark wants their greeting cards (unlike those of Blue Mountain et. al.) to be SECURE.
* Now, this is a significant innovation. I was sitting awake in bed all night worrying about a man-in-the-middle greeting card attack:
* Alice chooses a Hallmark condolence card, and emails it to Bob on an unsecure link.
* Mallory intercepts the condolence card message and substitutes a novelty insult card. Mallory forwards the message to Bob.
* Bob receives the card, and is tricked into believing that Alice is an insensitive bitch.
* Alice denies sending the card, but Bob doesn't believe her. Their friendship is never quite the same after this.
With a secure greeting card, this could never happen!
This is a non-issue, because bob wouldn't actually *read* the card...
* Bob check mail
* Bob gets message with subject "Alice has sent you an electric greeting card"
* Bob groans.
* Bob knows he can't get away with not clicking on the enclosed link, because the card web site notifies the sender when the card was "read". That's why Mallory is still pissed at him.
* Bob opens message, clicks on enclosed link.
* Bob's browser opens in new window. He is forced, under great pain, to wait while a page with an animated gif of some sort draws on the screen. As soon as the midi file starts playing, he knows the page is fully loaded and Alice gets the notification that he read the message.
* Bob closes browser window on second note of midi file. Card goes unread.
* Bob hit reply to sender in email. Composes some hack response like, "I just read the card you sent me. Thank you so much for brightening my day. You are so sweet!"
* Bob sends reply.
* Bob deletes original message.
The above series of events can happen in less than 30 seconds. Honest.
As well, E-mail is not the medium of choice for the distribution of complex documents..
I can't count the number of Excel and Word documents that get passed around via email attachments in my office. That's the standard "medium of choice" for distributing these "complex" documents.
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I think Microsoft is working a similar feature. But the panic number calls Redmond, not your house. Just wait for the next XP security update.
I'd love to have something like this running. Are they any current security programs that do things like this? I would need it for Windows and Linux.
Now if only I could have it run in the BIOS. Imagine if on the bios level, without a proper key or password or whatever, if the hard drive was removed and replaced, it would then call a panic number whenever connected. That'd be neat.
Brendan Frasier is an IDIOT
A common misception -- because he likes kooky, off-beat roles.
The speculation in Hollywood circles is that a young, hot stud like Brad Pitt might take the lead (Indy) role.
Screw Brad Pitt. Brendan Fraiser has already been Indy in the two Mummy movies. Give him a better script and a better director and he could easily fill Ford's shoes in the role.
Or, AOL really don't want to do it at all, but will consider it a last resort.
They might have floated this idea to the public as a little jab a Microsoft to say, "If you really want to keep playing hardball, then we can, too" and hope that this makes negotiations with them a little bit easier.
AOL might work to surreptitiously keep this rumor alive for a while, not because they are seriously considering it, but to use as a stick for Microsoft.
Microsoft could call the bluff, though.
Just a theory.
Having the backing of a huge media giant may help the linux cause
... Just like having bulimia helps you stay thin.
The ongoing hypocricy astounds me. Most Linux users don't seem to really want Linux to succeed.
It's not hypocricy. If Democrats wanted to vote for a winner, they should have voted for Bush.
No? They didn't want to vote for a winner? Of course they did, but they wanted to win for the right reasons.
I'm a fan of linux and oss in general for, among other things, the anti-corporate spirit that it springs from and thrives on. If AOL bought RH, that spirit would be gone.
Corporations exist only the seperate me from my money.
Linux exists so that I don't have to let a corporation separate me from my money. It's free in every sense of the term.
The two goals don't mix. I use RH now, but if AOL buys them, I'll switch to SUSE in a heartbeat.
Microsoft isn't the only "enemy" of linux.
Linux (even the RedHat distro) has the GPL protecting it. Even AOL/TW's big lawyers can't break it.
Are you a betting man?
For a democracy to truly work it requires an educated populace that is well informed about the issues of the day and participates in electoral activities frequently so as to give politicians feedback on what actions they like and dislike.
True, but the breadth and scope of government action makes it impossible to a person to be well-informed on the issues. The government is too big, too powerful, and does to much for individuals to track more than an small percentage of it. After all, most of us are busy working 40-50 hrs weeks, raising kids, paying bills, etc.
It's not an excuse, it's a fact. I follow what I can, but I know I only get part of the story -- and that's on the issues I follow!
For others who might have once been interested, once they realized just how big government is, they wrote off their involvment as a waste of their time -- apathy.
I don't know the solution, but a smaller government where people could fathom that their input did make a difference would a good start.
I do feel bad for the show and Duchovney. He is a very likeable actor, however, he has been severely typecasted... I don't even know if Gillian Anderson can make the break, but she probably has a better chance.
Anderson could whistle dixie for all I care, so long as she does it nude.
I'd be happy to highlight people who match a particular criteria - you know SELECT * FROM foobar WHERE X=Y and all that. But he couldn't give me any criteria. He just wanted this guy's name highlighted. I could have screamed! I ended up putting a column in the database called highlight.
This is my world as well.
True Story:
When I first started in programming (which isn't that long ago) the alpha geek at the time made a comment that he hates other people using the software he writes.
I was taken aback by the statement. I said to him: But isn't that why you write software, to solve problems and help people do things?
He replies: No, I write software because I like to write software. I like doing cool things. When users start using the software, all they do is complain and ask for more features.
I didn't reply, thinking it was a pompous thing to say.
How little did I know then.
This alpha geek is no longer doing applications development (which he said was "boring") and is now doing linux kernel hacking for embedded systems, I believe, where I'm sure he's doing a great job.
I'm by no means an alpha geek, but I now understand his position. I don't fully agree with him, but I do understand.
I was like this for about a week before I realized why I wasn't getting any uploads. I had to open up port 6346 on my home network (linksys router). Also, Napshare lets me "force local ip" to my firewall/ external ip (assigned by RoadRunner). The linksys router does port forwarding on outside requests, so only one computer on my home network can share on that port.
This thread reminded me that RoadRunner had expired my old ip address and assigned me another and I had forgotten to update my gnutella client to reflect to new ip. So for the past few weeks or so, I had been one of the "non-sharing" people by simple oversight.
I doubt most limewire/bearshare users know any of this stuff. When running a gnutella client from work, people couldn't do this even if knew about it and wanted to.
Something like that happened to me as well, except they also yanked HBO 2 off of the extented basic as they upped the price. It was about that time I took notice of the various deals DirecTV was offering. $30-something for gobs more channels, as well as deals on hardware (which you own instead of rent) and installation.
Our cable goes at the end of January. We've already sent the cable notice. We figured we watched *maybe* an hour of cable-only programming per day. Most of the time we watch PBS (morning shows for the kids).
If I run an antenna, I get PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, UPN, and WB. Free.
Basically, it came down to this: Comedy Central moved their nightly SNL reruns to some other timeslot than 6:00 and started plugging their new lame game show Beat The Geeks. Then I realized, more-or-less, I was paying $50 a month to watch SNL reruns when I get home from work.
Screw that.
I'll miss FoxNews, but I get most of my news online anyway. I'll miss The History Channel, but I can learn more and better by *reading a book* on the subject during the time I would have been watching "History vs. Hollywood"
I just couldn't find a compelling reason to keep cable. Some of the stuff on cable didn't even make sense.
TVLand? I pay for a channel that has weekend long Beverly Hillbillies marathons? I programmed that channel out, but come on! A weekend Beverly Hillbillies marathon?! People watch that? People pay to watch that?
Miss Cleo? Electronic "AbDoer" whatever-it-is?
Cable needed to go. Even if it's free, I now want it out of my house. It's only a distraction and offers nothing of value to me.
Maybe the effort should go into producing a good, free implementation of a document editor to produce .doc documents, thereby using .doc against microsoft?
This is not a good strategy. Your free implemenation is only good until MS releases the next version of Word, and puts the OSS community perpetually in the role of playing catch-up.
This doesn't mean that carpel tunnel isn't a disablity you dolts, it's a very serious problem. This woman's case simply didn't prove that her affliction was serious enough for her to be considered under the ADA.
That's not rule by law. That's rule by lawyers -- which is very lame.
You can dl the source and look at the algorithms yourself.
lzip. Or just read this snippet from their faq:
1. What is lzip?
Lzip is the most advanced file compression utility ever conceived. It is literally years ahead of gzip (though admittedly gzip was around first), and makes use of mathematical transforms the bzip developers have never even heard of. The practical upshot of this is that when you use lzip, you get the best compression on the planet. Smaller file sizes; faster compression/uncompression times.
Used properly, lzip is capable of reducing a file down to 0% of its original size. Yes, you read that correctly: 0% of its original size. And regardless of file size, this can be done in constant time. Now do you see why some people are calling lzip the "holy grail" of file utilities?
2. What makes lzip different from gzip/bzip2?
Well, other than the performance benefits mentioned above, the real difference is that lzip uses a "lossy" compression scheme. Most other file compression utilities use a "lossless" compression scheme, mostly because the lossless algorithms are better understood and simpler mathematically (most programmers take shortcuts, particularly in areas that involve a lot of math).
This has two side effects. The first is that files compressed with lzip cannot be restored to their original state -- this is the "lossy" in lossy compression. The second is that the performance is vastly improved. Why don't go go back up to question number one and read that second paragraph again. We're talking about a constant-time algorithm that can reduce a file down to 0% of its original size. What's not to like?
tsop trsif
What's with the pastel green and pink? Are they selling Barbie dolls?
The real accomplishment was using a Bose-Einstein condensate to very easily construct an arrangement of atoms that would otherwise be technologically very hard. That they did it by means of a quantum phase transition (adjusting the parameters of the potential to produce a qualitative different wave function) is cool, but not exactly new.
I agree totally. Like when Jerry hit Tom over the head with a giant mallet and smashed his head into a pancake? I was like, Bugs Bunny did that to Yosemite Sam 20 years earlier! It was still funny when the eyes bugged out like spring coils, but it wasn't new at all. So I know exactly where you're coming from.
It is all over comedy central too. I watch that channel more than any other (by far) and Impostor is being promoed to death on that channel as well.
I would have thought comedy central, sci-fi, and dimension (film distributor) was all owned by the same company, but that is not the case, so actual money did change in promoting this movie.
Sci-Fi is owned by USA Networks (which was just bought by Universal/Vivendi, the same company that owns mp3.com)
Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, says this site.
Dimension is owned by Miramax, which is owned by Disney -- says this site and this site.
I don't watch too much tv, but you would think that Disney would plug the movie on ABC and ESPN, which it also owns, especially since they are hurting for cash right now. Why not promote in house?
How is this related to Impostor? Only tangentially. But be aware of the Big Six media companies. Three are involved in this film. It's more than six, but the other companies are AOL/TimeWarner, Sony, NewsCorp, and Bertelsmann (of Napster fame).
Others would add GE to the list, because they own NBC.
In any case, the entirety of our information and entertainment world comes nearly exclusively through those 8 companies.
Those screenshotd look pretty impressive. So impressive, in fact, I'm that skeptical, suspecting they might be mockups. If they are that far along, why don't they have betas anywhere?
The site is slashdotted now. Has anyone seen any pricing info on the product? They're calling it "affordable" on the home page. Are they contributing code back to GPL like Ximian?
You've done an outstanding job of making it difficult, if not impossible for the people who are running slashdot "light" to mark a person a friend or foe.
I have to agree. I just discovered "lite" mode because of this post. Nice. The alt text for the icon is "User Relationship". Why not just dump the icon altogether and have a text link of "Relation: Friend" or "User is: Neutral"?
Lite mode is cool.
Awesome!
At http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=editcomm
I can set:
Funny: -6
I can finally filter all the Groucho Marx lamer wannabes out of my comments. Schweet.
Seems to me that it's just if you specify someone as a friend, the person;'s posts become boosted by some number of points. Set the person as a foe, it removes points.
Doesn't seem to be much more to it.
Is this behavior documented somewhere? Did I miss a link? Or is figuring it out supposed to be part of the fun? .
Hallmark wants their greeting cards (unlike those of Blue Mountain et. al.) to be SECURE.
* Now, this is a significant innovation. I was sitting awake in bed all night worrying about a man-in-the-middle greeting card attack:
* Alice chooses a Hallmark condolence card, and emails it to Bob on an unsecure link.
* Mallory intercepts the condolence card message and substitutes a novelty insult card. Mallory forwards the message to Bob.
* Bob receives the card, and is tricked into believing that Alice is an insensitive bitch.
* Alice denies sending the card, but Bob doesn't believe her. Their friendship is never quite the same after this.
With a secure greeting card, this could never happen!
This is a non-issue, because bob wouldn't actually *read* the card...
* Bob check mail
* Bob gets message with subject "Alice has sent you an electric greeting card"
* Bob groans.
* Bob knows he can't get away with not clicking on the enclosed link, because the card web site notifies the sender when the card was "read". That's why Mallory is still pissed at him.
* Bob opens message, clicks on enclosed link.
* Bob's browser opens in new window. He is forced, under great pain, to wait while a page with an animated gif of some sort draws on the screen. As soon as the midi file starts playing, he knows the page is fully loaded and Alice gets the notification that he read the message.
* Bob closes browser window on second note of midi file. Card goes unread.
* Bob hit reply to sender in email. Composes some hack response like, "I just read the card you sent me. Thank you so much for brightening my day. You are so sweet!"
* Bob sends reply.
* Bob deletes original message.
The above series of events can happen in less than 30 seconds. Honest.
Lastly,
* Alice gets warm fuzzy feeling.
* Bob gets laid.
As well, E-mail is not the medium of choice for the distribution of complex documents..
I can't count the number of Excel and Word documents that get passed around via email attachments in my office. That's the standard "medium of choice" for distributing these "complex" documents.
How lame can patents get? I afraid to ask.