I was thinking of an insanely complex algorithm, with key upon key upon key upon key upon key. And the keys themselves are polymorphic, keyed to a specific time and day (by the Julian calendar), etc., etc.
...to include forms submitted to webpages and FTP transfers? E-mail might just be the beginning of this Hobbesian renaissance.
(Hobbesian = compliant with the social philosophy of Thomas Hobbes [i.e.: paranoia regarding the "inherent wickedness" of people and their tendency to do bad things when out of the scrutiny of authority])
If you vote for no one, you're voting for whichever loser the majority picks. IMHO, in abstaining from the elections, you are committing a crime worse than ballot stuffing; you are committing outright treason.
If you hate all the candidates, then why don't you just cast a write-in vote? That is one of your rights as a registered voter.
They don't seriously think that Adbusters faked all those atrocious facts about big businesses, do they? Cigarettes do cause cancer. Coke machines do use HFCs. The presidential candidates are walking hypocrites.
When planning a culture jamming page or spoof ads, check your facts. That way, when they sue you, you'll have proof that it is happening, and they run the risk of perjury.
I have the Linksys 4-port DSL router, which logs on for me. Today, from 17:58 to 18:12, and from 20:52 to 21:13, the PPPoE server was down (the error "PPPoE LCP Negotiation Fail!" was also seen). Also, Verizon has had many problems with GTI as a GSP; personally, I chose Qwest, so I haven't seen those issues with GTI. The support number is 1-800-567-6789; I really shouldn't have that memorized; the fact that it is really tells you something about Verizon (the number for Visa/Mastercard authorizations is 1-800-991-9911; gee, guess why I've memorized that one!). Also, Verizon's tech support is horribly understaffed; even at off-peak hours, I can't get through to them.
My recommendation is to get DSL with someone who uses Covad, and make sure that it doesn't use PPPoE. If the friends of yours live in a Verizon-controlled area, then you might still have some trouble with them, even if they're not your ISP (see the article "Why Verizon Really Sucks" on 2600.com for their Verizon horror story).
Picture it: instead of hauling out that snowblower or slaving away with that snowshovel, you'll just whip out a plasmagun to melt those two-foot drifts! And for that pesky ice, use the Lightning gun! (Battle suit not included)
Are double pumped, hyperpipelined, low latency designs the only future for x86?
And what's wrong with double pumped, hyperpipelined, low latency x86 designs? Though I must admit that the i686 is getting a little old, so let's perform the aforementioned optimizations to that architecture.
Not since the Avtomat Kalishnikov AK-47 assault rifle has a piece of Russian construction been shared so much with the world.
However, let's hope that this re-entry doesn't end up like a previous one did: when Skylab re-entered, it burned up over Australia. A visiting American boy brought back a piece of it.
I've heard horror stories of the T3 lines at some colleges being brought to a 56k-ish crawl due to students hogging bandwidth with their improvised servers. Most colleges even block out Napster at the firewall level (not mine; some of the computers in the labs have Napster on them!). Other ISPs (cough::Verizon!::cough) seem to kill connections when a client has been connected with a steady data stream for more than a specific time. The trouble with that is the simple fact that a steady data stream could mean anything from running a wickedly popular FTP server to playing a multiplayer game.
From what I've seen, the very mentioning of Napster in the IT sector conjures up images of a routermonkey's nightmare: the entire backplane blinking like a christmas tree; innocent file transfers and print requests being delayed by a few connections involved in a Napster session. Perhaps this is why the government is acting so harshly against Napster; because it just might be a threat to national security and the status quo.
Since it is no longer a private endeavor (VA Linux is a publicly traded company) shouldn't Slashdot be held to the same standards as other 'news' agencies?"
In one word: YES!!!
Right now, there's misspellings in the body text of stories, broken or mangled links, and a band of overzealous karma whores churning out stories by the minute. This seriously needs to be changed. No more frivolous "stories" (e.g.: "JonKatz is an idiot", etc) in the submission queue! Ban trolling as we know it! And give users the chance to edit their post once, as well as giving the admins the right to delete posts altogether. Personally, I think that any post moderated to -1 should be deleted, its post id being retained to fill the gap.
The only thing holding Slashdot back is the troll population. With them, Slashdot is on the same level as sCary's ShugaShack and another site which I'll leave unnamed (it ends in.cx).
Let's face it, Open Source requirements are almost always in the mind(s) of the programmer(s), not on paper.
That's certainly true. If I were in charge of a huge software project, I would engrave the project's objectives on stone tablets hung in each programmer's cube. If a programmer dares to stray from the objectives... WHACK!!!
If they're still working on their standard, then how can there be "SDMI compliant" devices SHIPPING NOW!?!?!
Two words: firmware upgradeable. It has become standard practice for companies to put an EEPROM in almost every hardware device they build so they can "add innovative features". Unfortunately, the existence of a firmware system also means that the software engineers often turn lazy and code alpha-quality code into a final release product. Their excuse is that they can always build newer drivers later and the customers can flash the device.
That is one of the reasons why I don't like firmware; it breeds a type of arrogance in the mentalities of software engineers.
Russian sub K219 off the eastern seaboard back in the 80s (almost detonated the nuclear missiles in the sub), then the Kursk in the Barents. Now Mir. And I thought that the original U.S. Mercury "spam in a can" project was really improvised. The Russian military/space agency really has whittled the act of risking the lives of their crewmen in catastrophic crashes down to an outright artform.
What if this starts up an incident like that portrayed in "The Andromeda Strain"? It might be MUCH worse than the movie, since there was only a grain of space crud lodged in the satellite, and Mir is overrun with the fungus. We'd better quarantine the entire Pacific Rim if we're going to survive this.
The Capitol Steps. They do a radio show on NPR on New Year's Eve, April Fool's day, Indepence Day and Halloween. The site also has some of their parody songs on MP3 and AU (for you Solaris buffs). Their Halloween show is coming up soon, and since it's an election year, the show is bound to be hilarious. Check the station and time for your area, and hear parodies of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George W., and more.
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I was thinking of an insanely complex algorithm, with key upon key upon key upon key upon key. And the keys themselves are polymorphic, keyed to a specific time and day (by the Julian calendar), etc., etc.
...in case a law like this is passed in the US.
(Hobbesian = compliant with the social philosophy of Thomas Hobbes [i.e.: paranoia regarding the "inherent wickedness" of people and their tendency to do bad things when out of the scrutiny of authority])
...and make decrypting it a violation of the DMCA.
If you hate all the candidates, then why don't you just cast a write-in vote? That is one of your rights as a registered voter.
When planning a culture jamming page or spoof ads, check your facts. That way, when they sue you, you'll have proof that it is happening, and they run the risk of perjury.
Everyone who abstains from the election is involuntarily voting for the winner. Make your vote count, screw up Al Gore's master plan.
My recommendation is to get DSL with someone who uses Covad, and make sure that it doesn't use PPPoE. If the friends of yours live in a Verizon-controlled area, then you might still have some trouble with them, even if they're not your ISP (see the article "Why Verizon Really Sucks" on 2600.com for their Verizon horror story).
Picture it: instead of hauling out that snowblower or slaving away with that snowshovel, you'll just whip out a plasmagun to melt those two-foot drifts! And for that pesky ice, use the Lightning gun! (Battle suit not included)
I don't think that I'll "cache" in for another "fiscal year" or two. My "Katmai" should hold out until then
And what's wrong with double pumped, hyperpipelined, low latency x86 designs? Though I must admit that the i686 is getting a little old, so let's perform the aforementioned optimizations to that architecture.
How does that beat downloading for free an entire album which would've been $16.99 at the store?
the anti-gravity push-up bra that she always wears. So pathetic to see yet another Barbie lookalike doing the same teenybopper song-and-dance.
However, let's hope that this re-entry doesn't end up like a previous one did: when Skylab re-entered, it burned up over Australia. A visiting American boy brought back a piece of it.
From what I've seen, the very mentioning of Napster in the IT sector conjures up images of a routermonkey's nightmare: the entire backplane blinking like a christmas tree; innocent file transfers and print requests being delayed by a few connections involved in a Napster session. Perhaps this is why the government is acting so harshly against Napster; because it just might be a threat to national security and the status quo.
In one word: YES!!!
Right now, there's misspellings in the body text of stories, broken or mangled links, and a band of overzealous karma whores churning out stories by the minute. This seriously needs to be changed. No more frivolous "stories" (e.g.: "JonKatz is an idiot", etc) in the submission queue! Ban trolling as we know it! And give users the chance to edit their post once, as well as giving the admins the right to delete posts altogether. Personally, I think that any post moderated to -1 should be deleted, its post id being retained to fill the gap.
The only thing holding Slashdot back is the troll population. With them, Slashdot is on the same level as sCary's ShugaShack and another site which I'll leave unnamed (it ends in .cx).
That's certainly true. If I were in charge of a huge software project, I would engrave the project's objectives on stone tablets hung in each programmer's cube. If a programmer dares to stray from the objectives... WHACK!!!
Change this to either "code alpha-quality drivers" or "write alpha-quality code"; whichever one floats your boat.
Two words: firmware upgradeable. It has become standard practice for companies to put an EEPROM in almost every hardware device they build so they can "add innovative features". Unfortunately, the existence of a firmware system also means that the software engineers often turn lazy and code alpha-quality code into a final release product. Their excuse is that they can always build newer drivers later and the customers can flash the device.
That is one of the reasons why I don't like firmware; it breeds a type of arrogance in the mentalities of software engineers.
Russian sub K219 off the eastern seaboard back in the 80s (almost detonated the nuclear missiles in the sub), then the Kursk in the Barents. Now Mir. And I thought that the original U.S. Mercury "spam in a can" project was really improvised. The Russian military/space agency really has whittled the act of risking the lives of their crewmen in catastrophic crashes down to an outright artform.
What if this starts up an incident like that portrayed in "The Andromeda Strain"? It might be MUCH worse than the movie, since there was only a grain of space crud lodged in the satellite, and Mir is overrun with the fungus. We'd better quarantine the entire Pacific Rim if we're going to survive this.
The Capitol Steps. They do a radio show on NPR on New Year's Eve, April Fool's day, Indepence Day and Halloween. The site also has some of their parody songs on MP3 and AU (for you Solaris buffs). Their Halloween show is coming up soon, and since it's an election year, the show is bound to be hilarious. Check the station and time for your area, and hear parodies of Bill Clinton, Al Gore, George W., and more.
(holds up steel tablet with DeCSS engraved on it) "...from my COLD, DEAD HANDS!!!"
Yeah, not so good, but maybe a better one will be created later.
"Internal Revenue Service Notice: Political candidates may use fuzzy math -- but not taxpayers!" -page A19 of today's Boston Globe.