If a person can craft a usable exploit on a buffer overflow (which wasn't used yet, maybe just reported)... I wouldn't call such a person a "skript kiddie"... I dont see the "script"... I see a person who really understands how a stack is build and can be exploited
The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before possible because they carry devices that possess both communication and computing capabilities.... Groups of people using these tools will gain new forms of social power.
If you keep out the "carry" and change it into "own"... you have the internet... And what is it used for by most people.... Download mp3, porn and troll on newgroups.... If data from the past is any foresight for the future, i'm not so sure how "smart" the mobs will be...
Maybe technology will become smarter, people however will probably stay the same.
But so is red-hat, ximian, mandrake (well maybe not much longer) etc.... I mean, being commercial is not the issue. Maybe their corporate history is different and therefore you should be more careful?
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There is a user running around here which has a sig which goes kinda like this: Tesla: Had Edison thought out his work and spent more time in preparation, he would not sweat so much.
Pseudo software as a self generating route description. Is this a joke? For the half of it: yes,.walk is a joke. For the other half: no,.walk is a serious attempt to find out if walking can be used for more than transportation alone. Because we were already exploring walking around on algorithms, it was a logical step to modify these little programs into something that actually solves problems. Theoretically these individual.walk programs could be connected into a computer. In the "programming.walk for dummies" text it is shown how you can solve quite complex computations by stripping them down to their smallest factor & have a interesting walk at the same time..walk has however nothing to do with computer programming in any sense, it only mocks them..walks is not developed by programmers & the.walk examples are written with only a minimal knowledge of both math & simple computer languages like Basic. Everybody should be able to figure out what a script does, but nevertheless people are scared by them, just as they are scared by Justin Timberlake's lips. This is in a sense part of the fun of the.walk project, there is nothing wrong with alienating people a little bit, because they will only love.walk the better for it in the end. Do you fancy a walk with us?
I had something similar. A cash machine in an airport in Germany showed the standard reboot modal popup saying something like "you need to reboot in order to finish the installation" (I always forget how it actually goes). It was quite annoying because the alert blocked the view of the textbox showing the amount of money you typed to withdraw....
well I guess that will weed out the sick aswell... so yeah sure why not... I mean, I 'm not against hunting (people did it since the stoneages, although
a bit different)... just that natural predators are good in lowering the prevalence of a disease...
Sorry... what you just wrote was not insighful... firstofall were are not really good at battling disease at this moment... for most of the infectious diseases the prevalence is increasing... second prions do not contain DNA therefore can't evolve like normal diseases in any way.
probably the best way to keep a population of deer healthy is to let them be controlled by natural predators... they are more likely to pick out the weak and sick (thereby controlling epidemics as well although slight)... It's very difficult for a hunter to assess whether one deer is fit, especially from a long distance...
or you should prefer to hunt the deer with a club and run after it, trying to smash in their skull
It's more like "what are we not doing today"..... I think that the chance of crippling the economic society as we know today through the effect of global warming is much bigger than that by means of the impact of an asteroid... "At least several decades warning"... well Arrhenius already predicted global warming in 1896 or so... how much more decades of warning do you want?
I have win4lin... quite expensive actually (you need a bootable win98 cd to get it to work + buy win 4lin)... but when I start win it always eats a lot of my memory and cpu.. here is a example of top (win + iexplore):
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
2649 onno 19 0 24560 46M 24364 R 27.0 41.9 0:21 dosexec
normally the cpu usage goes down if you leave it to itself...
But although I think that win4lin is nice... it still is uses a lot of memory to emulate (or whatever its doing) the windows kernel + application, instead of only running the application you interested in... Wine on the other hand (if it uses less than the windows kernel) could sometimes be more appropriate
Oh, I always thought it was the grandfather erasmus darwin who claimed that species where not "fixed" in time...
and you're quite right... if darwin would have written about evolution (a term he never has used himself) Alfred Russel Wallace probably would have taken all the credit
Talking about email en vi command....
You really should read this comment in a newsgroup... The use of vi commands in email might be more connected than you think.
This reminds me of pascal's image of knowledge...
Where knowledge is symbolized by the sphere's volume and the unknown by the sphere's surface. Therefore as knowledge grows, so does the unkown (although the volume grows faster than the surface, total wisdom will be never achieved.)
(or if the sphere is a balloon, science grows until it explodes:)
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If a person can craft a usable exploit on a buffer overflow (which wasn't used yet, maybe just reported) ... I wouldn't call such a person a "skript kiddie"... I dont see the "script" ... I see a person who really understands how a stack is build and can be exploited
The people who make up smart mobs cooperate in ways never before possible because they carry devices that possess both communication and computing capabilities.... Groups of people using these tools will gain new forms of social power.
.... If data from the past is any foresight for the future, i'm not so sure how "smart" the mobs will be...
If you keep out the "carry" and change it into "own"... you have the internet... And what is it used for by most people.... Download mp3, porn and troll on newgroups
Maybe technology will become smarter, people however will probably stay the same.
Mmmmm...
... what's *your* uptime? ;)
Voyager 1 --- Launch Date:September 5, 1977
Last time I heard it's computer is still running... Tell me
But so is red-hat, ximian, mandrake (well maybe not much longer) etc.... I mean, being commercial is not the issue. Maybe their corporate history is different and therefore you should be more careful?
There is a user running around here which has a sig which goes kinda like this:
Tesla: Had Edison thought out his work and spent more time in preparation, he would not sweat so much.
of course it should be: Escape Meta Alt Control Shit.
From the homepage http://www.socialfiction.org/:
.walk is a joke. For the other half: no, .walk is a serious attempt to find out if walking can be used for more than transportation alone. Because we were already exploring walking around on algorithms, it was a logical step to modify these little programs into something that actually solves problems. Theoretically these individual .walk programs could be connected into a computer. In the "programming .walk for dummies" text it is shown how you can solve quite complex computations by stripping them down to their smallest factor & have a interesting walk at the same time. .walk has however nothing to do with computer programming in any sense, it only mocks them. .walks is not developed by programmers & the .walk examples are written with only a minimal knowledge of both math & simple computer languages like Basic. Everybody should be able to figure out what a script does, but nevertheless people are scared by them, just as they are scared by Justin Timberlake's lips. This is in a sense part of the fun of the .walk project, there is nothing wrong with alienating people a little bit, because they will only love .walk the better for it in the end.
Pseudo software as a self generating route description. Is this a joke?
For the half of it: yes,
Do you fancy a walk with us?
which organism can live without water?
I had something similar. A cash machine in an airport in Germany showed the standard reboot modal popup saying something like "you need to reboot in order to finish the installation" (I always forget how it actually goes). It was quite annoying because the alert blocked the view of the textbox showing the amount of money you typed to withdraw....
bacteria don't have chromosomes... they have a circular strand of DNA
$1,853,000,000,000, 000,000,000
$40,000,000,000
_______________________-
$1,800
you worked for Enron as an accountant, right?
bore the world with 400 waterworld movie remakes
donate 37 dollar cents to at every person in the world for 18 years... is that a lot or not? dunno
In an ideal world, the spammer wouldn't be able deliver any copy to a host for relaying ;)
well I guess that will weed out the sick aswell... so yeah sure why not... I mean, I 'm not against hunting (people did it since the stoneages, although ... just that natural predators are good in lowering the prevalence of a disease...
a bit different)
furthermore since aids is most likely to be transmitted by sexual contact... it has no place in "news for nerds"
Sorry ... what you just wrote was not insighful... firstofall were are not really good at battling disease at this moment... for most of the infectious diseases the prevalence is increasing... second prions do not contain DNA therefore can't evolve like normal diseases in any way.
probably the best way to keep a population of deer healthy is to let them be controlled by natural predators...
they are more likely to pick out the weak and sick (thereby controlling epidemics as well although slight)...
It's very difficult for a hunter to assess whether one deer is fit, especially from a long distance...
or you should prefer to hunt the deer with a club and run after it, trying to smash in their skull
It's more like "what are we not doing today".....
I think that the chance of crippling the economic society as we know today through the effect of global warming is much bigger than that by means of the impact of an asteroid...
"At least several decades warning"... well Arrhenius already predicted global warming in 1896 or so... how much more decades of warning do you want?
I have win4lin ... quite expensive actually (you need a bootable win98 cd to get it to work + buy win 4lin)... but when I start win it always eats a lot of my memory and cpu.. here is a example of top (win + iexplore):
PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
2649 onno 19 0 24560 46M 24364 R 27.0 41.9 0:21 dosexec
normally the cpu usage goes down if you leave it to itself...
But although I think that win4lin is nice... it still is uses a lot of memory to emulate (or whatever its doing) the windows kernel + application, instead of only running the application you interested in... Wine on the other hand (if it uses less than the windows kernel) could sometimes be more appropriate
I couldn't agree more.... and sorry I did indeed mean "If he had not written"
btw eramus darwin was one of the lunatics that founded the
lunatics society
and do the darwin quiz!
Oh, I always thought it was the grandfather erasmus darwin who claimed that species where not "fixed" in time...
... if darwin would have written about evolution (a term he never has used himself) Alfred Russel Wallace probably would have taken all the credit
and you're quite right
you can never be precise enough with vague terms ;)
"..groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural
populations which are reproductively isolated from other such groups"
somehow I'm still missing the word viable in this definition
Talking about email en vi command....
You really should read this comment in a newsgroup...
The use of vi commands in email might be more connected than you think.
This reminds me of pascal's image of knowledge...
:)
Where knowledge is symbolized by the sphere's volume and the unknown by the sphere's surface. Therefore as knowledge grows, so does the unkown (although the volume grows faster than the surface, total wisdom will be never achieved.)
(or if the sphere is a balloon, science grows until it explodes