Umm, gkrellm? Just look at the bandwidth meters and if something is strange, kill your browser. You don't want to kill your browser? Then watch the ad. You can't have something for nothing!
Yeah, and great software it is. It only crashes every 30 seconds, and all the icons are inconsistient (some from crystal theme [ripped from OSX and XP], some from the old theme, some from GNOME, etc). UI guidelines? Fuck them. If it's shiny, it's good!
And what's all this "K" business. It's not kute anymore. Cut it out.
I have a "friend" who constantly tells me how good he is because he got his computer so cheaply. "My PC31337 RAM was only like 50 cents a stick man, I have 40 gigs!!! I overclocked my Athlon 1000+ to 3700+ speeds, man! w00t." Good work.
I'm the kind of person who will pay a little more to know that if the part is defective I can return it without too much fuss. That, and by the time I get the $5 back by rebate it's taken about 2 hours of my time. Not worth it.
Same here. I notice I often dream in the morning when my alarm is going off, and dream that the poor bastard in the dream has to get up. It sometimes takes a good five minutes for me to realize that _I_ am the poor bastard who has to get up:)
Yes. I was just about to post something about mods. They sound wonderful, they're small, and you can even modify them! It's like the Open Source of Music. So much fun... go and download some and play around with them in something like cheesetracker (anyone know of GNOME/Gtk-2 trackers?).
The movie industry should just give up... they're not going to stop hackers from getting the raw video stream. I like reverse engineering things just for fun. You tell me I can't do something, I want to prove I can. It's not about saving $20 (although for some people it is; I haven't seen a movie I've liked for quite a while [Office Space]).
Basically unless you embed a decryption chip in my optic nerve, you can't stop someone from copying video. Even then, someone could guess/extract your encryption key.
Remember that even if you encrypt something, if I have the private key (in my player/computer), then it's not encrypted anymore. So relegate movies to the theatre, or don't treat us like criminals. You're just wasting money complicating the playback hardware.
Sorry if this post is unclear... I'm basically saying that a new format will ALYWAYS be cracked if some smart person cares enough to crack it. Remember the XBOX boot code? Some guy got it by connecting a probe (128 of them) to the memory bus. Sorry, if it's transferred somewhere, someone will get it. Boo fucking hoo. Stop making movies if you don't want them to be stolen!:)
I haven't really liked AMD's practice of doing this, but it turns out that a 3200+ Athlon XP and a 3.2GHz P4 are quite comprable in benchmarks. AMD isn't pulling this stuff out of their asses as a marketing scam. They have good chips, but they just run slower. They do more work in one clock tick. Regular consumers don't understand this, hence the xxxx+ reatings. It's a necessary evil if they want people to take their processors serously.
As for Apple, they need to start doing this too. They can call the G5 something like 4500+ and beat AMD and Intel:)
Exactly. On the AthlonXP there are jumpers that change the XP into a MP. There is another set that changes it to a Mobile Athlon. More jumpers change a 2500+ to a 3000+ (multipliers), etc, etc. Producting 10 different cores would make the processors cost about $1000 a piece. Selling 3200+s for more than they cost and 2500+s for less make AMD profitable (well, not really. but it's the right idea:)
Anyway, your 2500+ is only guarenteed to run at 1700MHz (or whatever). If it runs at 2200MHz, great. If not, tough shit. If you buy a 3200+, though, then it had better run at 2200MHz (200x11, right?). If not, then you can complain.
Selling underclocked 3200+s as 2500+s allows AMD to sell bad 3200+s instead of throwing them away. The reason that some overclock well is because AMD tests a few out of one batch, and if any are bad AMD brands them _ALL_ as 2500+s. So it's highly likely that you really have a 3200+, but, again, don't count on it.
I am also anxiously awaiting less-toxic displays. Yesterday I gobbled down my 21" monitor. I was fine for a while, but, uh, it got bad. Talk about shitting a brick the next day...
You come over and hand me a disk with your public key on it. Or my friend that I trust signs the key and you push it to the keyserver. Read up on key exchange, it's interesting stuff.
Essentially what happens is this:
1. Everyone makes a key. 2. ??? 3. Profit!
Just kidding.
1. Everyone generates a keypair (a private key that decrypts messages, and signs things, and a public key that you give to everyone that verifies that signatures are from the private key [that presumably only you control], and encrypts things to your private key [i.e. you]). 2. Everyone publishes their public keys. 3. You sign someone's key if you know that person is who the key says he is.
Now you want to send a message. You get the public key of the recipient from the keyserver. It happens to be signed by persons A and B. You signed person B's key... therefore you trust that the key is valid (since you trust person B's judgement). Now you encrypt a message to your recipient [with HIS public key], and sign it [by encrypting a hash of the message with YOUR private key].
The receiver gets your public key, applies the trust logic to make sure he really has your key, and verifies that the message is from you.
You had to have your private key to make that signature valid. If someone forged your private key, the signature would not have been valid. Also, if the message was changed, the signature would again be invalidated.
So the recipient decrypts the message with HIS private key, that only he has. Now that person knows that 1) the message was from you and had not ben altered since you signed it (since he decrypted the hash of the message with your public key, which he trusts and the hash validated), and 2) nobody read or the message (only you can read that message, becuase only you have the private key).
Thanks for the tip. I can't wait until mosquito season, now. Damn.. where are those suckers when you want them!?
My friend (from 4th grade or so) once did something similar; he held the mosquito so it couldn't fly away. It turned into a burst blood baloon:) I've tried to replicate this for many years but the fuckers always get away. This year they won't be so lucky *evil laugh*
That's why I'll continue to encrypt all important (and unimportant!) conversations. For email I always use GPG (regardless of how important the message is). For VoIP, if I ever use it, I'll be sure to send the voice data through encrypted channels. Frankly, there's no excuse for not encrypting everything. Let them make laws; beat them with the tech.
And when they outlaw the tech, remember that you can learn how to write encryption software yourself. See Ciphersaber. There you'll learn to write your very own crypto code, and you'll remember how to do it again. I did it a few months ago and could still code something decent up:)
So don't worry about this. Just encrypt, and when encryption becomes illegal send lots of random data (netcat/dev/urandom) to your friends:) That will never be illegal, and encrypted data is the same as random data without the key!
I support me going to your house and stealing your computer because you, uh, did something illegal with it. That's right, hand over the PC3500 RAM. I'm an AMD representitive and I don't want you overclocking! That's illegal! C'mon, hand it over! Yeah, that over there too. And your kitty. Chop chop.
Now if I did that, you would first look at me and think "oh man, how did this looney get out of the asylum" and then you would proceed to shoot me (not in the head, please). You'd be dumb not to (okay, maybe you'd call the cops. same idea)!
How is the RIAA any different than the me in this example!?
I know slashdotters (like myself) love Sony's offerings... they're cool and neat looking, but remember that Sony is supporting the RIAA in all of the lawsuits. Also, the MemoryStick media that they back (and surely put in this laptop) is much more expensive than CF or SD or anything else.
Also, I just plain haven't had good luck with Sony products:
My NX60 stopped working one day for no reason (didn't drop or crush it), my stereo shocks me when i touch the case (so that's gone), my brother's PS2 died for no reason, my coworker's sony laptop's keys [letters on the keyboard] have all rubbed off ("how can I type now!?" "remember where the keys are" "what!!???"), etc, etc, etc.
My Multiscan200sf monitor is holding up quite nicely; that's a well-made piece of machinery:) Then again, maybe they didn't suck in 1997.
Note that I'm not flaming or trolling, I just think that most people on slashdot would be better-served by choosing a more open vendor than Sony.
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I don't want to be too nitpicky, but chips from Transmeta and VIA also run Windows. You shold have said "x86 or ia64" :)
Umm, gkrellm? Just look at the bandwidth meters and if something is strange, kill your browser. You don't want to kill your browser? Then watch the ad. You can't have something for nothing!
Yeah, and great software it is. It only crashes every 30 seconds, and all the icons are inconsistient (some from crystal theme [ripped from OSX and XP], some from the old theme, some from GNOME, etc). UI guidelines? Fuck them. If it's shiny, it's good!
And what's all this "K" business. It's not kute anymore. Cut it out.
Maybe you should try using a real OS. I've had zero problems with my Live! under Linux, and the sound quality is great.
C'mon, what do you expect from Windows, anyway. Ease of use? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahah.
I have a "friend" who constantly tells me how good he is because he got his computer so cheaply. "My PC31337 RAM was only like 50 cents a stick man, I have 40 gigs!!! I overclocked my Athlon 1000+ to 3700+ speeds, man! w00t." Good work.
I'm the kind of person who will pay a little more to know that if the part is defective I can return it without too much fuss. That, and by the time I get the $5 back by rebate it's taken about 2 hours of my time. Not worth it.
Same here. I notice I often dream in the morning when my alarm is going off, and dream that the poor bastard in the dream has to get up. It sometimes takes a good five minutes for me to realize that _I_ am the poor bastard who has to get up :)
Too much coffee at night is a baaad thing.
Yes. I was just about to post something about mods. They sound wonderful, they're small, and you can even modify them! It's like the Open Source of Music. So much fun... go and download some and play around with them in something like cheesetracker (anyone know of GNOME/Gtk-2 trackers?).
Slow in the sense that it doesn't do anything for you like syntax highlighting or M-x replace-string.
Heh, ut2003 doesn't let you play online if you don't have a real CD key. But it has no problems with a three-player match with the same CD key ;)
Yeah, I know I should buy it. It's the best game I've ever played. I'll be first in line to buy ut2004.
The movie industry should just give up... they're not going to stop hackers from getting the raw video stream. I like reverse engineering things just for fun. You tell me I can't do something, I want to prove I can. It's not about saving $20 (although for some people it is; I haven't seen a movie I've liked for quite a while [Office Space]).
:)
Basically unless you embed a decryption chip in my optic nerve, you can't stop someone from copying video. Even then, someone could guess/extract your encryption key.
Remember that even if you encrypt something, if I have the private key (in my player/computer), then it's not encrypted anymore. So relegate movies to the theatre, or don't treat us like criminals. You're just wasting money complicating the playback hardware.
Sorry if this post is unclear... I'm basically saying that a new format will ALYWAYS be cracked if some smart person cares enough to crack it. Remember the XBOX boot code? Some guy got it by connecting a probe (128 of them) to the memory bus. Sorry, if it's transferred somewhere, someone will get it. Boo fucking hoo. Stop making movies if you don't want them to be stolen!
The subject of this post ain't relevent! LAME Ain't an MP3 Encoder, ya know!
I haven't really liked AMD's practice of doing this, but it turns out that a 3200+ Athlon XP and a 3.2GHz P4 are quite comprable in benchmarks. AMD isn't pulling this stuff out of their asses as a marketing scam. They have good chips, but they just run slower. They do more work in one clock tick. Regular consumers don't understand this, hence the xxxx+ reatings. It's a necessary evil if they want people to take their processors serously.
:)
As for Apple, they need to start doing this too. They can call the G5 something like 4500+ and beat AMD and Intel
It's good if you like shitty sounding rights removal. Otherwise, yeah, it's shit.
So what if they know the data is there? If it's encrypted, what can they do?
Exactly. On the AthlonXP there are jumpers that change the XP into a MP. There is another set that changes it to a Mobile Athlon. More jumpers change a 2500+ to a 3000+ (multipliers), etc, etc. Producting 10 different cores would make the processors cost about $1000 a piece. Selling 3200+s for more than they cost and 2500+s for less make AMD profitable (well, not really. but it's the right idea :)
Anyway, your 2500+ is only guarenteed to run at 1700MHz (or whatever). If it runs at 2200MHz, great. If not, tough shit. If you buy a 3200+, though, then it had better run at 2200MHz (200x11, right?). If not, then you can complain.
Selling underclocked 3200+s as 2500+s allows AMD to sell bad 3200+s instead of throwing them away. The reason that some overclock well is because AMD tests a few out of one batch, and if any are bad AMD brands them _ALL_ as 2500+s. So it's highly likely that you really have a 3200+, but, again, don't count on it.
> That energy has to go somewhere.
Umm, maybe to ground?
I am also anxiously awaiting less-toxic displays. Yesterday I gobbled down my 21" monitor. I was fine for a while, but, uh, it got bad. Talk about shitting a brick the next day...
Did you mean: If enough people link to them, they will be... ?
Slashdot has links, ya know!
You come over and hand me a disk with your public key on it. Or my friend that I trust signs the key and you push it to the keyserver. Read up on key exchange, it's interesting stuff.
:)
Essentially what happens is this:
1. Everyone makes a key.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Just kidding.
1. Everyone generates a keypair (a private key that decrypts messages, and signs things, and a public key that you give to everyone that verifies that signatures are from the private key [that presumably only you control], and encrypts things to your private key [i.e. you]).
2. Everyone publishes their public keys.
3. You sign someone's key if you know that person is who the key says he is.
Now you want to send a message. You get the public key of the recipient from the keyserver. It happens to be signed by persons A and B. You signed person B's key... therefore you trust that the key is valid (since you trust person B's judgement). Now you encrypt a message to your recipient [with HIS public key], and sign it [by encrypting a hash of the message with YOUR private key].
The receiver gets your public key, applies the trust logic to make sure he really has your key, and verifies that the message is from you.
You had to have your private key to make that signature valid. If someone forged your private key, the signature would not have been valid. Also, if the message was changed, the signature would again be invalidated.
So the recipient decrypts the message with HIS private key, that only he has. Now that person knows that 1) the message was from you and had not ben altered since you signed it (since he decrypted the hash of the message with your public key, which he trusts and the hash validated), and 2) nobody read or the message (only you can read that message, becuase only you have the private key).
So that's how that would work
> Watch it burst!
:) I've tried to replicate this for many years but the fuckers always get away. This year they won't be so lucky *evil laugh*
Thanks for the tip. I can't wait until mosquito season, now. Damn.. where are those suckers when you want them!?
My friend (from 4th grade or so) once did something similar; he held the mosquito so it couldn't fly away. It turned into a burst blood baloon
That's why I'll continue to encrypt all important (and unimportant!) conversations. For email I always use GPG (regardless of how important the message is). For VoIP, if I ever use it, I'll be sure to send the voice data through encrypted channels. Frankly, there's no excuse for not encrypting everything. Let them make laws; beat them with the tech.
:)
/dev/urandom) to your friends :) That will never be illegal, and encrypted data is the same as random data without the key!
And when they outlaw the tech, remember that you can learn how to write encryption software yourself. See Ciphersaber. There you'll learn to write your very own crypto code, and you'll remember how to do it again. I did it a few months ago and could still code something decent up
So don't worry about this. Just encrypt, and when encryption becomes illegal send lots of random data (netcat
Well, the EFF is wrong.
I support me going to your house and stealing your computer because you, uh, did something illegal with it. That's right, hand over the PC3500 RAM. I'm an AMD representitive and I don't want you overclocking! That's illegal! C'mon, hand it over! Yeah, that over there too. And your kitty. Chop chop.
Now if I did that, you would first look at me and think "oh man, how did this looney get out of the asylum" and then you would proceed to shoot me (not in the head, please). You'd be dumb not to (okay, maybe you'd call the cops. same idea)!
How is the RIAA any different than the me in this example!?
This is a very clever post. Mod him up!
I would sue them. They can't deatin you. Citzen's arrest doesn't give you that authority. In fact, I'm going to look in to this.
Next thing you'll be detained for thinking about stealing. And the cops will never arrive.
This really bothers me. To the grandparent, thanks for informing me.
I know slashdotters (like myself) love Sony's offerings... they're cool and neat looking, but remember that Sony is supporting the RIAA in all of the lawsuits. Also, the MemoryStick media that they back (and surely put in this laptop) is much more expensive than CF or SD or anything else.
:) Then again, maybe they didn't suck in 1997.
Also, I just plain haven't had good luck with Sony products:
My NX60 stopped working one day for no reason (didn't drop or crush it), my stereo shocks me when i touch the case (so that's gone), my brother's PS2 died for no reason, my coworker's sony laptop's keys [letters on the keyboard] have all rubbed off ("how can I type now!?" "remember where the keys are" "what!!???"), etc, etc, etc.
My Multiscan200sf monitor is holding up quite nicely; that's a well-made piece of machinery
Note that I'm not flaming or trolling, I just think that most people on slashdot would be better-served by choosing a more open vendor than Sony.