If you liked the Matrix then check out Geoff Darrow's "Hard Boiled", and "Big Guy and Rusty the boy robot" graphic novels. They show why the Wachowski's wanted this guy for set design and concept art.
I was stationed at an air base in Florida that I will leave unnamed. Anyways early in the morning (4am) you could some times hear a succession of sonic booms 5 or 6 in a row coming from off the Gulf of Mexico. Now you can say the sonic booms could have been anything, but there was a popular rumor of a top-secret super fast fighter (possible unmanned) being tested on the base at that time. Put the 2 together and it makes you think?
"When it comes right down to it, everything that goes on with hacking these days is pretty damn juvenile. But has this changed? Not in 10 or 15 years. It's not worse now, it's always been stupid. Back in the 80's elite hackery generally involved getting someone's TRW records and posting it somewhere to let people screw with them."
What!!? hacking juvenile? You would not be online now if it where not for people playing with, experimenting "HACKING" computers. Hacking is fundamental and does not necessarily apply to just computers (cue inspirational background music) Apollo 13 never would have gotten back to earth safely if the astronauts didn't "Hack" there system, you would not be able to download any Divx movies let me say that again you would not be able to down load any Divx if it were not for those loveable "Hackers". Homer Simpson and his fellow co workers never would have been able to leave work early if he had not "Hacked" the security camera by playing a continues VHS loop of them working from 70's.
Also someone defacing a web site is not really hacking in my book there just doing something that's been done before. It's sometimes interesting, some times amusing. But basically its just digital graffiti. Just don't call it hacking....
Bill was sent here from some far off Vulcan like world to contaminate the Earth with DOS and windows. Weakening are computational powers, rendering the Earth defenseless to the oncoming horde.
It's a fact that he is an alien. The NSA and FBI did a scientific study on him back in the 60's, to see if he posed a threat to the US. During the final and decisive test, a researcher threw a red dodge ball at his head in order to test his reflexes. Bill failed to move or even raise his arms in self defense The ball bounced clean off of his forehead. Flustered by the impact to his face, Mr. Gates began to stare at dodge ball angrily until a Microsoft windows logo appeared on its side. The FBI and NSA felt that Bill Gates posed no immediate threat to the nation, seeing how he used his powers for capitalistic purposes and not for communist propaganda they let him go.
True for software but I don't think its true of hardware...
for instance when a console first arrives on the market people learn to exploit the system. It's easier to play a copied PS1 disk on a first generation PS1 then on later PS1 generation. The only reason a console manufacturer upgrades a console system is either
1.they have a cheaper more efficient way of manufacturing the console.
2. To kill any copy protection exploits.
Rarely do they do it to improve the users end experience...
I watched the "moon landing cover up" show last week with some friends and I have to say it was the most asinine underhanded thing ever to be broadcast over the airwaves. The sad thing about this show is that threw clever editing of video and interviews taken out of context it was convincing to people of average intelligence unfamiliar with NASA. So convincing that my friends were buying into this shows conspiracy theory. I was constantly defending NASA threw out the entire program. It made me look like a shell to the government, like I was the crazy one not the guy on the show talking about a giant vacuumless film studio at area 51.
The 2 things that really pissed me off were
1. The use of unrelated video footage. Like footage from WW II of dieing Japanese children with radiation poisoning using that to illustrate what happens in the Van Allan belt.
2. Saying NASA may have deliberately sabotaged Apollo 1 to keep Gus Grissom form blowing the whistle on the moon cover up. The narrator of the show said it was a strange unknown mystery how the fire was started and how it spread so rapidly. That's completely not true there are 1000 of pages documenting how the fire started and spread.
In summery I now hate fox.
They owe every one in the world an apology for airing this turd of a program.
Fuck fox!
After all we have a right to bare arms in Unreal tournament and Quake...
We cannot let are god given right to use the annihilator or rail gun slip threw are fingers.
I think most of this legislation was drafted during the Clinton administration. And would have most certainly have passed with a Gore / Libramin Presidency remember these 2 were very into the idea of big government censoring things for the children.
Bush on the other hand seems to be hands off on this whole censoring issue...
Bush is more interested in fucking up the environment...
Yes I know he called the internet "dark and evil" or something like that.
But actions speak louder then words. Bush's has appointed Michael Powell to head the FCC, and Powell has publicly stated that the government should not tell parents how to raise their kids and the FCC will not be in the business of deciding what is appropriate to broadcast. To further illustrate this point the FCC has now dropped it's obscenity case against Howard Stern.
I know the FCC is not the FTC. I just think what's happening in FCC shows how Bush seems to have a hands off approach on the censoring issue.
Call me crazy... but I thought it was the parents responsibility to decide what is appropriate for a child to play with, not the government...
the last time I checked the parent was bringing home the money to pay for these games no one forces Mortal Kombat or Half Life on you.
and if the kid down loads an ISO of the game from that evil internet it's still the parents responsibility to know what there kid is doing on line. Parental ignorance is not an excuses to censer every thing in the world.
You make a very good point.
I find it very odd too... the fact that they were uploading to the wrong server is a little sketchy for computer science majors. I know it's easy to get server IP numbers mixed up but domain names?? Maybe they were drunk, baked, or tripping. I myself have done some weird shit to my computer will high before.
No you are wrong...
it would not be illegal to call anyone on the street a " slashdot-reading no-life asshole". It's not a nice thing to do, and in some parts of the country it may result in you getting an ass-wupping but it's far from illegal.
What is illegal is knowingly telling a lie in order to destroy some ones credibility or standing in society. Saying "Dr. Jon eats babies I have proof, don't let Dr. Jon see your baby"... if you said that in order to do Dr. Jon harm that would be slander, and that would be illegal.
As far as I know your free to call any one an asshole.
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It's all well and good remembering the Challenger explosion, but they were not the only ones to die for the space program. Yes it was the most widely watched disaster in NASA's history...but it was not the only one and it will not be the last one...
if any one ever has the time to take a tour of Kennedy Space Center they should visit Pad 34. It was the launch pad Apollo 1 burnt up on, I went there about 2 years ago, and at that site is a plaque. That reads " AD ASTRA PER ASPERA" ( a rough road leads to the stars). You get a strange eerie feeling walking around that pad I tell yeah...
this is a great thing to do. if enough people file frivols lawsuits for all concepts or things considered free, like.... navigational buttons on a web site... using colored fonts in a email... you get the picture...
maybe congress will wake up and take a look at the outdated patent laws.
When I watch a movie I don't care that much about hard science. I'm not saying I want a movie to out right insult my intelligence like Armageddon and ID4. But saying the movie sucks because it's not scientifically sound is ridicules. Buy that logic star wars star trek and just about every other space movie sucks because rocket engines, lasers and explosions don't make any noise in space.
Some of you sound like the comic book guy from the Simpson's.
Call me a troll I liked the Matrix and I look forward to seeing the sequels.
I know this is slightly off topic but a link on that rumors page
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?200 1- 01/11/11.30.rumors
has Bill Clinton playing the role of president in a 007 Bond movie.
Why stop their Bill you can play Neo. Imagine Clinton in a Kung Fu fight seen running up walls. Or maybe he can play the part of an Agent.
This hot pre IPO vapor venture capital E business (E = explosive)
Is looking for 3 dedicated can do individuals to shake up the CRAs in America.
Applicants must possess skills in:
Word Perfect.
Demolition.
JAVA.
Fire Arms (M-16, AK 47 a plus).
HTML.
Hand-to-Hand combat.
Photoshop & Illustrator.
Manufacturing explosives form ever day household items.
Be a real people person.
Applicant must all so possess a Class B drives license, Pilot license a big plus but not necessary
All interested applicants pleas submit you resume to causey@thecauseyway.com
i agree with you some what, interacting with other people is more rewarding , but i think you are looking at this in the wrong way. not every one who plays games is a hermit. by your argument reading a novel or watching a movie is anti-social. i like playing games to stimulate my mind. i would rather physically play baseball then to play the video game, and i would much rather play a baseball video game then to watch a baseball game.
point being I like interaction, I like having some say in a situation.
yes you can over do it I think playing a video game till you hear birds chirping in the morning is a problem and in the future when games have more realistic environments. it will probable be looked at like a gambling or a drug problem.
my only advice to you is never, never, never, play Deus ex.
i rarely ever complete a game normally i get bored with a game after a week or so. but Deus ex changed all of that. i lost a job and almost my girl friend because of this game,but that's beside the point
my main point is this. it's been about a year or so since i have played it. but i can remember events in the game as if they were my acutely memories for instance sniping Unatco troops from a bride in Paris. fighting Agent Nervaro talking to Tracer Tong, and so on (man do I sound crazy) I have played other role playing games before Final Fantasy, Zelda, Baldurs gate but i really can't remember jack shit from them. the creators of this game did a great job immersing (sucking) the player into the game. i think this is due to the freer environment and story line. there were always multiple ways of solving a problem and dealing with people in the game, and the story revolved around conspiracies and land marks that we have all heard about. unlike Baldurs gate which was set in a fantasy world. This is why I call it a Quasi Reality, there were things in the game that we were already familiar with.
it's a good thing the graphics where not 3D photo realistic other wise i would probably have a Schizoid Embolism like in Total Recall.
I live in the northeast and I have a DSL connection threw verizon.
And yes I was affected by their email debacle.
What there not telling you is that.
Not only was there a slow down but also they had to dump a ton of email to clear out there server. I called their tech support Thu. After noticing I had not received any new email in over a day, not even spam (talk about a killer spam filter). Tech support told me that they were having problems (dugh) and that they were planning on dumping a large chunk of email in the server to clear the connection. They did not state that in their press release, I think it's lame not to tell people that their email was lost or never delivered.
Also they stated in the press release that only dial-up connections were affected. Again not true, I'm on a DSL.
By in large I have relatively few complaints with my service. My connection is always supafast, but then again I can open my window and throw a rock at the verizon building. I normally refrain from throwing rocks at my phone company, but if this happens more often I may have to reevaluate my rock throwing policy.
"What do they hope to gain?" you ask.....
A lot!
It may seem like an insignificant thing to do, reestablish contact with a 35-year-old probe that is millions of miles away. You have to look at the big picture in the future when people are living and traveling away from this planet the research may prove (will definitely prove) to be invaluable.
Also I wonder what the ping time would be for the pioneer 10?
10 print " wow i can see my name on a Ps2"
20 goto 10
run
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
Slashdot Mirror
If you liked the Matrix then check out Geoff Darrow's "Hard Boiled", and "Big Guy and Rusty the boy robot" graphic novels. They show why the Wachowski's wanted this guy for set design and concept art.
Praise Causey!
I was stationed at an air base in Florida that I will leave unnamed. Anyways early in the morning (4am) you could some times hear a succession of sonic booms 5 or 6 in a row coming from off the Gulf of Mexico. Now you can say the sonic booms could have been anything, but there was a popular rumor of a top-secret super fast fighter (possible unmanned) being tested on the base at that time. Put the 2 together and it makes you think?
Sorry my attention span doesn't last that long so I missed that. blame Hollywood
"When it comes right down to it, everything that goes on with hacking these days is pretty damn juvenile. But has this changed? Not in 10 or 15 years. It's not worse now, it's always been stupid. Back in the 80's elite hackery generally involved getting someone's TRW records and posting it somewhere to let people screw with them."
What!!? hacking juvenile? You would not be online now if it where not for people playing with, experimenting "HACKING" computers. Hacking is fundamental and does not necessarily apply to just computers (cue inspirational background music) Apollo 13 never would have gotten back to earth safely if the astronauts didn't "Hack" there system, you would not be able to download any Divx movies let me say that again you would not be able to down load any Divx if it were not for those loveable "Hackers". Homer Simpson and his fellow co workers never would have been able to leave work early if he had not "Hacked" the security camera by playing a continues VHS loop of them working from 70's.
Also someone defacing a web site is not really hacking in my book there just doing something that's been done before. It's sometimes interesting, some times amusing. But basically its just digital graffiti. Just don't call it hacking....
Bill was sent here from some far off Vulcan like world to contaminate the Earth with DOS and windows. Weakening are computational powers, rendering the Earth defenseless to the oncoming horde.
It's a fact that he is an alien. The NSA and FBI did a scientific study on him back in the 60's, to see if he posed a threat to the US. During the final and decisive test, a researcher threw a red dodge ball at his head in order to test his reflexes. Bill failed to move or even raise his arms in self defense The ball bounced clean off of his forehead. Flustered by the impact to his face, Mr. Gates began to stare at dodge ball angrily until a Microsoft windows logo appeared on its side. The FBI and NSA felt that Bill Gates posed no immediate threat to the nation, seeing how he used his powers for capitalistic purposes and not for communist propaganda they let him go.
True for software but I don't think its true of hardware...
for instance when a console first arrives on the market people learn to exploit the system. It's easier to play a copied PS1 disk on a first generation PS1 then on later PS1 generation. The only reason a console manufacturer upgrades a console system is either
1.they have a cheaper more efficient way of manufacturing the console.
2. To kill any copy protection exploits.
Rarely do they do it to improve the users end experience...
landing on the moon would be simpler.... With all the people connected to the Apollo program it would be hard to keep a secret so big for so long.
I watched the "moon landing cover up" show last week with some friends and I have to say it was the most asinine underhanded thing ever to be broadcast over the airwaves. The sad thing about this show is that threw clever editing of video and interviews taken out of context it was convincing to people of average intelligence unfamiliar with NASA. So convincing that my friends were buying into this shows conspiracy theory. I was constantly defending NASA threw out the entire program. It made me look like a shell to the government, like I was the crazy one not the guy on the show talking about a giant vacuumless film studio at area 51.
The 2 things that really pissed me off were
1. The use of unrelated video footage. Like footage from WW II of dieing Japanese children with radiation poisoning using that to illustrate what happens in the Van Allan belt.
2. Saying NASA may have deliberately sabotaged Apollo 1 to keep Gus Grissom form blowing the whistle on the moon cover up. The narrator of the show said it was a strange unknown mystery how the fire was started and how it spread so rapidly. That's completely not true there are 1000 of pages documenting how the fire started and spread.
In summery I now hate fox.
They owe every one in the world an apology for airing this turd of a program.
Fuck fox!
One of my favorite pro technologies inde bands has built their own recording studio.
Check their site out
http://www.astroman.com/zeroreturn/index.html
True... but what the computer can replace is that $50,000.99 mixing board.
After all we have a right to bare arms in Unreal tournament and Quake...
We cannot let are god given right to use the annihilator or rail gun slip threw are fingers.
Praise Causey www.thecauseyway.com
I think most of this legislation was drafted during the Clinton administration. And would have most certainly have passed with a Gore / Libramin Presidency remember these 2 were very into the idea of big government censoring things for the children.
Bush on the other hand seems to be hands off on this whole censoring issue...
Bush is more interested in fucking up the environment...
Yes I know he called the internet "dark and evil" or something like that.
But actions speak louder then words. Bush's has appointed Michael Powell to head the FCC, and Powell has publicly stated that the government should not tell parents how to raise their kids and the FCC will not be in the business of deciding what is appropriate to broadcast. To further illustrate this point the FCC has now dropped it's obscenity case against Howard Stern.
I know the FCC is not the FTC. I just think what's happening in FCC shows how Bush seems to have a hands off approach on the censoring issue.
Praise Causey.... www.thecauseyway.com
Call me crazy... but I thought it was the parents responsibility to decide what is appropriate for a child to play with, not the government...
the last time I checked the parent was bringing home the money to pay for these games no one forces Mortal Kombat or Half Life on you.
and if the kid down loads an ISO of the game from that evil internet it's still the parents responsibility to know what there kid is doing on line. Parental ignorance is not an excuses to censer every thing in the world.
Praise Causey...
You make a very good point.
I find it very odd too... the fact that they were uploading to the wrong server is a little sketchy for computer science majors. I know it's easy to get server IP numbers mixed up but domain names?? Maybe they were drunk, baked, or tripping. I myself have done some weird shit to my computer will high before.
No you are wrong...
it would not be illegal to call anyone on the street a " slashdot-reading no-life asshole". It's not a nice thing to do, and in some parts of the country it may result in you getting an ass-wupping but it's far from illegal.
What is illegal is knowingly telling a lie in order to destroy some ones credibility or standing in society. Saying "Dr. Jon eats babies I have proof, don't let Dr. Jon see your baby"... if you said that in order to do Dr. Jon harm that would be slander, and that would be illegal.
As far as I know your free to call any one an asshole.
It's all well and good remembering the Challenger explosion, but they were not the only ones to die for the space program. Yes it was the most widely watched disaster in NASA's history...but it was not the only one and it will not be the last one...
if any one ever has the time to take a tour of Kennedy Space Center they should visit Pad 34. It was the launch pad Apollo 1 burnt up on, I went there about 2 years ago, and at that site is a plaque. That reads " AD ASTRA PER ASPERA" ( a rough road leads to the stars). You get a strange eerie feeling walking around that pad I tell yeah...
this is a great thing to do. if enough people file frivols lawsuits for all concepts or things considered free, like.... navigational buttons on a web site ... using colored fonts in a email... you get the picture...
maybe congress will wake up and take a look at the outdated patent laws.
When I watch a movie I don't care that much about hard science. I'm not saying I want a movie to out right insult my intelligence like Armageddon and ID4. But saying the movie sucks because it's not scientifically sound is ridicules. Buy that logic star wars star trek and just about every other space movie sucks because rocket engines, lasers and explosions don't make any noise in space.
Some of you sound like the comic book guy from the Simpson's.
Call me a troll I liked the Matrix and I look forward to seeing the sequels.
Praise Causey http://www.thecauseyway.com
I know this is slightly off topic but a link on that rumors page0 1- 01/11/11.30.rumors
http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?20
has Bill Clinton playing the role of president in a 007 Bond movie.
Why stop their Bill you can play Neo. Imagine Clinton in a Kung Fu fight seen running up walls. Or maybe he can play the part of an Agent.
"there is no blue dress... um spoon"
This hot pre IPO vapor venture capital E business (E = explosive)
Is looking for 3 dedicated can do individuals to shake up the CRAs in America.
Applicants must possess skills in:
Word Perfect.
Demolition.
JAVA.
Fire Arms (M-16, AK 47 a plus).
HTML.
Hand-to-Hand combat.
Photoshop & Illustrator.
Manufacturing explosives form ever day household items.
Be a real people person.
Applicant must all so possess a Class B drives license, Pilot license a big plus but not necessary
All interested applicants pleas submit you resume to causey@thecauseyway.com
Praise Causey
i agree with you some what, interacting with other people is more rewarding , but i think you are looking at this in the wrong way. not every one who plays games is a hermit. by your argument reading a novel or watching a movie is anti-social. i like playing games to stimulate my mind. i would rather physically play baseball then to play the video game, and i would much rather play a baseball video game then to watch a baseball game.
point being I like interaction, I like having some say in a situation.
yes you can over do it I think playing a video game till you hear birds chirping in the morning is a problem and in the future when games have more realistic environments. it will probable be looked at like a gambling or a drug problem.
my only advice to you is never, never, never, play Deus ex.
i rarely ever complete a game normally i get bored with a game after a week or so. but Deus ex changed all of that. i lost a job and almost my girl friend because of this game,but that's beside the point
my main point is this. it's been about a year or so since i have played it. but i can remember events in the game as if they were my acutely memories for instance sniping Unatco troops from a bride in Paris. fighting Agent Nervaro talking to Tracer Tong, and so on (man do I sound crazy) I have played other role playing games before Final Fantasy, Zelda, Baldurs gate but i really can't remember jack shit from them. the creators of this game did a great job immersing (sucking) the player into the game. i think this is due to the freer environment and story line. there were always multiple ways of solving a problem and dealing with people in the game, and the story revolved around conspiracies and land marks that we have all heard about. unlike Baldurs gate which was set in a fantasy world. This is why I call it a Quasi Reality, there were things in the game that we were already familiar with.
it's a good thing the graphics where not 3D photo realistic other wise i would probably have a Schizoid Embolism like in Total Recall.
I live in the northeast and I have a DSL connection threw verizon.
And yes I was affected by their email debacle.
What there not telling you is that.
Not only was there a slow down but also they had to dump a ton of email to clear out there server. I called their tech support Thu. After noticing I had not received any new email in over a day, not even spam (talk about a killer spam filter). Tech support told me that they were having problems (dugh) and that they were planning on dumping a large chunk of email in the server to clear the connection. They did not state that in their press release, I think it's lame not to tell people that their email was lost or never delivered.
Also they stated in the press release that only dial-up connections were affected. Again not true, I'm on a DSL.
By in large I have relatively few complaints with my service. My connection is always supafast, but then again I can open my window and throw a rock at the verizon building. I normally refrain from throwing rocks at my phone company, but if this happens more often I may have to reevaluate my rock throwing policy.
.........over
"What do they hope to gain?" you ask.....
A lot!
It may seem like an insignificant thing to do, reestablish contact with a 35-year-old probe that is millions of miles away. You have to look at the big picture in the future when people are living and traveling away from this planet the research may prove (will definitely prove) to be invaluable.
Also I wonder what the ping time would be for the pioneer 10?
10 print " wow i can see my name on a Ps2"
20 goto 10
run
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2
wow i can see my name on a ps2