One has to wonder what would have happened if Intel had patented the extended instruction set of the 80386... or the first Pentium chips. No clones? Would AMD or Transmeta ever existed as CPU manufacturers? This sort of thing scares me, as it indicates to me that we may miss out on something great (think of AMD today) in the future.
The Anarchist's Cookbook is a piece of anti-terrorist propaganda put out by the CIA. The small stuff works ok, but any chemist will tell you... mixing the larger explosives as mentioned in the book will cause you to blow yourself up.
Check out the text to the actual treaty here. Looks like the newest revision is only available as a Word doc, although there's a slightly older version available in HTML. Something worth noting, though: contrary to the implication of the article, the word "hack" or "hacking" does not appear anywhere in this draft. The "Illegal Access" section contains the phrase "A Party may require that the offence be committed either by infringing security measures or with the intent of obtaining computer data or other dishonest intent." IANAL, but I think this pretty much outlaws all white hat stuff.
One of the interesting things about this, also, is the fact that it's a treaty. It basically says that all nations who sign/agree to it will create a set of a laws that accomplish the goals laid out in it. The actual laws themselves will be created by the countries affected by it, and those are what are really going to make "hacking", "cracking" or anything else illegal.
A friend of mine claims, only half-jokingly, that he'll never vote so he can't be blamed when the government goes to hell in a handbasket. I'll vote, but only to keep Bush from being elected. Almost anyone would be better than Bush; I've seen what that idiot has done in my home state of Texas...
FF6 is good, but no one seems to remember FF4 (or 2 here in the US). The music in FF4 is every bit as masterful as FF6, and the storyline runs circles around almost any other game I can think of... it's cosmic and personal at the same time, and fascinating, to boot. Yeah, the graphics are cheesy compared to the later games, but some of the effects (especially towards the end) are incredible, considering the game came out in (I believe) 93 or 94.
Final Fantasy 4 is one of 2 games that has actually brought tears to my eyes.
Good afternoon gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H A L plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January, 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it, I could sing it for you...
School-sponsered laptops? I wonder if this is going to work like textbooks...
"Buy a "school-sponsered" laptop, a blazing pentium 166 w/32MB of RAM for only $3000! But don't worry, the school will buy it back from you for a whopping $50 when you graduate. No, you can't bring your own, because the SCHOOL only supports Windows 95, and of course you'll need to buy a school copy of Microsoft Visual Basic for $1,300 for the advanced programming course, but again, you can sell it back at the end of the year. Provided you can return the shrinkwrapped package. For $50."
The truth is clear... cell phones are obviously a government creation designed to test the effects of microwave radiation on humans! So far though, all they've found is that it heats up the side of your head...
Wasn't the whole point of the contest to see HOW SDMI would be cracked? Hence the apparently-ineffective boycott and everything else... the SDMI corporations wanted to tap the collective brainpower of the geek scene...
I've thought about this one, too. Like you, I hate unions in general, but some unions have really helped out some friends of mine, so I can't really say all unions are evil. I'm with you on this one though. IT, to my knowledge, has no unions. But every person I've ever known who works in ANY branch of IT (in a corporation) has been forced to work in decidedly non-optimal environment. One company in particular that I worked for (who shall remain nameless, but makes big green tractors) treats their IT workers like shit, particularly their in-house support. One person is set to tier-2 support between 80 and 300 people. If any one of those people complain about said worker not doing what they want, the worker is fired. Period. No exceptions. This happened to me when one person in my section complained that someone from outside was hacking their system. What made them think this? Windows blue-screened. Because I didn't install a "fire screen" (their words) on their system, they complained about me and boom... I'm out of a $27/hour job. The turnover for this company's IT workers is mindboggling (average: 3 months). How else can we protect ourselves from these sorts of idiocies?
I've had dreams about reading ahead in books that I'm reading in the waking world. What's really odd is that my subconcious mind sort of extrapolates, and usually what I remember reading in the dream is pretty close to what actually happens. It's usually during these that I can gain some sort of control over the dream, too.
Some of those displays seem to be the genuine article, while others look like photographs stuck in place of a true display. I wonder if any of this stuff is using OLED technology yet?
On the other hand, what's with the shaping of those remotes? Looks like some kind of new combination TV remote/dildo. Never lose the remote control again!
What would have happened if the Tunguska event of 1908 had happened 2 hours later? Boom, in the middle of Moscow... Here's some statistics; whether they comfort you or scare you is all in how you look at things. There are probably about 1000 >1km asteroids that cross earth orbit. One of those hits us, on extreme average, every 300,000 years or so. You might be interested in reading this. Also, this place has a lot of good info and links about meteorites, impacts, and the like.
But you've gotta think... between airbursts and small impacts, we're bombarded pretty heavily already. All precautions allowed by our level of technology are being taken; if a meteorite hit us tomorrow, there's not a single damn thing we can do about it. Worrying about it is as pointless (even less so) than worrying about tripping over a sidewalk crack and breaking your neck. If you spend every spare minute thinking about it, yes, you'll be a paranoid wreck. So don't.
Of course, some people (Arthur C. Clarke among others) think it'll take a major impact in a populated area to unite the planet... The problem is it could happen tomorrow.. or 10,000 years from now. We just don't know. (of course, because I said that, and because today's Friday the 13th, I'll probably get hit by one on the way to work)
There was a movie or TV show with this sorta plot... cybersex was so real that some people never had the real thing, and never missed it... then they started to get paranoid about it, thinkin' about diseases (in a future where STDs had been wiped out) and such... anyone have any idea what this movie was? Now I'm wondering...
A method of creating a complex biological organism, while providing a medium for random positive and/or negative alterations from two existing complex organisms of the same species. Specifically, the use of genitalia to facilitate this process ("Bumping Uglies"TM). Anyone using this method in order to propagate new organisms, and/or for personal enjoyment, must pay a licensing fee no less than $500 and no more than $1,000,000, based on the amount of time spent completing the process, not to exceed 48 hours straight. Other fees may apply based on variations of this technique as may be covered by my other patents, including alternate equipment alignment and variable entry points. These additional licensing costs will be determined by a team of experts who will observe and record the process via VHS tape. This tape will be delivered to myself or one of my associates for review, after which the tape will be made publically available so others wishing to refine their technique for this process will have examples to refer to.
My school in the early 80s had a series of "tank" robots that you could program instructions into. These went along the lines of forward 30, rotate 45degrees left, forward 5, rotate turret 15degrees right, fire 4 times, return to starting point. They were cool as hell, but even at the time (I was just a wee lad after all) neither my parents or the school could find any more of them, and no one at the school seemed to know where they had come from. The best I can remember of their appearance is they were about the size of a lunchbox, mostly dark blue with a keypad on the back, and "firing" consisted of the red light at the end of the turret lighting up. Anyone else have any idea what these were?
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One has to wonder what would have happened if Intel had patented the extended instruction set of the 80386... or the first Pentium chips. No clones? Would AMD or Transmeta ever existed as CPU manufacturers? This sort of thing scares me, as it indicates to me that we may miss out on something great (think of AMD today) in the future.
We need Lord Vetinari. (Apologies to those who've never read the Discworld books)
The Anarchist's Cookbook is a piece of anti-terrorist propaganda put out by the CIA. The small stuff works ok, but any chemist will tell you... mixing the larger explosives as mentioned in the book will cause you to blow yourself up.
Check out the text to the actual treaty here. Looks like the newest revision is only available as a Word doc, although there's a slightly older version available in HTML. Something worth noting, though: contrary to the implication of the article, the word "hack" or "hacking" does not appear anywhere in this draft. The "Illegal Access" section contains the phrase "A Party may require that the offence be committed either by infringing security measures or with the intent of obtaining computer data or other dishonest intent." IANAL, but I think this pretty much outlaws all white hat stuff.
One of the interesting things about this, also, is the fact that it's a treaty. It basically says that all nations who sign/agree to it will create a set of a laws that accomplish the goals laid out in it. The actual laws themselves will be created by the countries affected by it, and those are what are really going to make "hacking", "cracking" or anything else illegal.
Live 20 miles north of Mexico for a year. Or 19 years. Then come back with how wonderful it is. :)
A friend of mine claims, only half-jokingly, that he'll never vote so he can't be blamed when the government goes to hell in a handbasket. I'll vote, but only to keep Bush from being elected. Almost anyone would be better than Bush; I've seen what that idiot has done in my home state of Texas...
FF6 is good, but no one seems to remember FF4 (or 2 here in the US). The music in FF4 is every bit as masterful as FF6, and the storyline runs circles around almost any other game I can think of... it's cosmic and personal at the same time, and fascinating, to boot. Yeah, the graphics are cheesy compared to the later games, but some of the effects (especially towards the end) are incredible, considering the game came out in (I believe) 93 or 94.
Final Fantasy 4 is one of 2 games that has actually brought tears to my eyes.
Good afternoon gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H A L plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January, 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it, I could sing it for you...
Actually, it was Miyamoto's idea to refit the Dream Factory with the SMB characters... although I'll agree it wasn't nearly as cool as SMB3.
School-sponsered laptops? I wonder if this is going to work like textbooks...
"Buy a "school-sponsered" laptop, a blazing pentium 166 w/32MB of RAM for only $3000! But don't worry, the school will buy it back from you for a whopping $50 when you graduate. No, you can't bring your own, because the SCHOOL only supports Windows 95, and of course you'll need to buy a school copy of Microsoft Visual Basic for $1,300 for the advanced programming course, but again, you can sell it back at the end of the year. Provided you can return the shrinkwrapped package. For $50."
SMB2 was a kickass game. People hated it just because it was different...
The truth is clear... cell phones are obviously a government creation designed to test the effects of microwave radiation on humans! So far though, all they've found is that it heats up the side of your head...
Wasn't the whole point of the contest to see HOW SDMI would be cracked? Hence the apparently-ineffective boycott and everything else... the SDMI corporations wanted to tap the collective brainpower of the geek scene...
I've thought about this one, too. Like you, I hate unions in general, but some unions have really helped out some friends of mine, so I can't really say all unions are evil. I'm with you on this one though. IT, to my knowledge, has no unions. But every person I've ever known who works in ANY branch of IT (in a corporation) has been forced to work in decidedly non-optimal environment. One company in particular that I worked for (who shall remain nameless, but makes big green tractors) treats their IT workers like shit, particularly their in-house support. One person is set to tier-2 support between 80 and 300 people. If any one of those people complain about said worker not doing what they want, the worker is fired. Period. No exceptions. This happened to me when one person in my section complained that someone from outside was hacking their system. What made them think this? Windows blue-screened. Because I didn't install a "fire screen" (their words) on their system, they complained about me and boom... I'm out of a $27/hour job. The turnover for this company's IT workers is mindboggling (average: 3 months). How else can we protect ourselves from these sorts of idiocies?
I've had dreams about reading ahead in books that I'm reading in the waking world. What's really odd is that my subconcious mind sort of extrapolates, and usually what I remember reading in the dream is pretty close to what actually happens. It's usually during these that I can gain some sort of control over the dream, too.
Some of those displays seem to be the genuine article, while others look like photographs stuck in place of a true display. I wonder if any of this stuff is using OLED technology yet?
On the other hand, what's with the shaping of those remotes? Looks like some kind of new combination TV remote/dildo. Never lose the remote control again!
What would have happened if the Tunguska event of 1908 had happened 2 hours later? Boom, in the middle of Moscow... Here's some statistics; whether they comfort you or scare you is all in how you look at things. There are probably about 1000 >1km asteroids that cross earth orbit. One of those hits us, on extreme average, every 300,000 years or so. You might be interested in reading this. Also, this place has a lot of good info and links about meteorites, impacts, and the like.
But you've gotta think... between airbursts and small impacts, we're bombarded pretty heavily already. All precautions allowed by our level of technology are being taken; if a meteorite hit us tomorrow, there's not a single damn thing we can do about it. Worrying about it is as pointless (even less so) than worrying about tripping over a sidewalk crack and breaking your neck. If you spend every spare minute thinking about it, yes, you'll be a paranoid wreck. So don't.
Of course, some people (Arthur C. Clarke among others) think it'll take a major impact in a populated area to unite the planet... The problem is it could happen tomorrow.. or 10,000 years from now. We just don't know. (of course, because I said that, and because today's Friday the 13th, I'll probably get hit by one on the way to work)
Dang it, I checked the little box... :P
There was a movie or TV show with this sorta plot... cybersex was so real that some people never had the real thing, and never missed it... then they started to get paranoid about it, thinkin' about diseases (in a future where STDs had been wiped out) and such... anyone have any idea what this movie was? Now I'm wondering...
At last, a UPS that won't outweigh its own volume in neutron star matter...
A method of creating a complex biological organism, while providing a medium for random positive and/or negative alterations from two existing complex organisms of the same species. Specifically, the use of genitalia to facilitate this process ("Bumping Uglies"TM). Anyone using this method in order to propagate new organisms, and/or for personal enjoyment, must pay a licensing fee no less than $500 and no more than $1,000,000, based on the amount of time spent completing the process, not to exceed 48 hours straight. Other fees may apply based on variations of this technique as may be covered by my other patents, including alternate equipment alignment and variable entry points. These additional licensing costs will be determined by a team of experts who will observe and record the process via VHS tape. This tape will be delivered to myself or one of my associates for review, after which the tape will be made publically available so others wishing to refine their technique for this process will have examples to refer to.
from the well-lookie-hyeah-padnah dept.
:)
I resent that! Only west Texans talk like that
Time Warner denied the charge, saying it and AOL are committed to open access
Since when has AOL ever been friendly to open access, or committed to anything good for its subscribers?
Shouldn't be too difficult, the man blames the Columbine incident on DOOM. Also, didn't he just finish bashing Wiccans a couple days ago?
My school in the early 80s had a series of "tank" robots that you could program instructions into. These went along the lines of forward 30, rotate 45degrees left, forward 5, rotate turret 15degrees right, fire 4 times, return to starting point. They were cool as hell, but even at the time (I was just a wee lad after all) neither my parents or the school could find any more of them, and no one at the school seemed to know where they had come from. The best I can remember of their appearance is they were about the size of a lunchbox, mostly dark blue with a keypad on the back, and "firing" consisted of the red light at the end of the turret lighting up. Anyone else have any idea what these were?