Trust me I know where India is, without even looking on a map I know it borders pakistan, the hindu religion and indian culture has influenced countries such as malaysia, where 1/3 of the population speaks indian.
Also to note, India has had quite and interesting history to boot. It's the birthplace of ghandi, despite having a tech boom right now, it still has one of the worst problems with homelessness. Serious, there are beggars all over the streets. The murderous kali cult that was hunted down by the british was pretty interesting bit of history too.
Unfortunately you missed the entire point of my satire, it's funny, laugh at it. Too bad your sense of humor isn't as sophisticated as the moderators.:(
I'm going to ask you a straight question, I hope you refresh your slashdot page soon enough to hit me back with a reply.
Do you want to become an american citizen? Because America the meltin pot is what USED to make us great.
True, we have a lot of terrible talent in our country, but since the days of "green card" labor we have allowed ourselves to say "It's cool to devaluate humans"
Basically, a green card, or H1B visa is wrong on so many different levels if you are an american with a biased opinion. I doubt you would speak with a harsh tone in your voice if you had citizenship.
It doesn't work like that! you don't deserve the job.
So you don't deserve a right to become United states citizen, yet you welcome us to pay you a measly severance, with no benifits simply because you see an oppertunity to make money? Bub, you got no Social Security checks coming to you, you can't vote on policies or new laws. You can't help elect officials by vote, or participate in our judicial systems of jury trials.
Yeah, we did this 200 years ago, Americans used to crate large sailing ships full of Africans. When they got here they had no rights either. They couldn't participate because they were property, 0wn3d if you will. Eventually we figured out that it was bad to attatch a peice of paper that announced 0w3rship over another human and those bad things we used to do stopped.
But now, instead of having slaves with no human rights and no citizen rights, we have slaves with no citizen rights. Still think H1-B is great? Again, you cannot vote, you can be deported in a blink of an eye (good luck finding a job if you get canned) You are living a lie by telling yourself this is a good thing. Quit deluding yourself into thinking it's anything but that.
Basically you are a foriegn letch on our system. You take up space yet you don't contribute to the american way of life. If everyone in america was H1-B basically all occupants (since they are not citizens) would lose all rights to the very democratic system that grants us our freedoms to vote and such as americans. Pretty fucked deal if you ask me.
On top of that, you still recieve benifits from your country of origin. Last time I checked canada has a pretty rocking health care system.
I don't believe what you said about underqualified american canidates. I live in silicon valley. Stanford, San Jose State, USF, and despite rumors of being dead Berkley has the highest concentration of computer geeks in the world. Despite what you say about there not being enough canidates, I can point you to at least 5 guys that could explain the difference between an abstract base class and a regular class that can't even get a fucking job at Albertsons bagging groceries. Any drive up the 101 will show you all the empty office space.
Yeah, I've worked with a few Canadians. Definetly some of the smartest people I ever knew. But don't go fooling yourself into thinking H1-B is good for america because it's not. Personally i'd rather have you naturlized as an American than being corporate equivelent of a disposable slave.
Yes folks, I have realized, as an american citizen I stand NO chance of getting a tech job right now. So I put my plan into action.
I'll renounce my american citizenship, fly to india, marry a native woman (to gain indian citizenship) and change my last name to Ha-beeb. Then, and only then will I apply for an american job under H1B visa laws. AND I'LL GET THE JOB WOOHOO!!! Oh and let's not forget, I'll need to bring 8k with me for that phony CS degree.
Boy will my bosses be surprised when they see toqer Ha-Beeb is really a white dude that speaks perfect english! They might even sponsor me to become an american citizen again!/end satire
Unless you are doing a weekly sweep of your network, and documenting the changes, any network, wired or wireless is suspectable to comprimise.
Using any cheap hub, a few gel cell batteries, and some cat5 wiring knowledge, a person with physical access to the building could hide a 802.11 unit in the ceiling tile, crawlspace, outdoors in the bushes, and for the duration of the charge create a gateway into said network. Add a device (such as the dreamcast) or comprimise a computer internally to broadcast and it becomes darn near untracable.
The major problem with most 802.11 installs is the admin simple does not do enough accounting and locking down on their network. If they would just reject all unknown mac addresses and accept from a known list WITH the added benifit of encypting all the traffic there would be NOTHING to worry about.
Why doesn't someone just point that out to them? Hey Japan out of work IT dude right here in USA--I stay up all night PST playin EQ so we're on the same time zone pretty much (ba-bump) I can SSH remotely I'll work cheaper than any indian too (baBumpTa!)
Anyone remember memory metals? They were sort of a greeting card fad for a while..You would mail a loved one what looked like an unbent paper clip, with instructions to dip it into hot coffee. Upon hitting the hot coffee the metal would bend itself into a message. Really neat stuff if you ever got to play with it.
The political objectives of the Chinese government. It
was decided that DVD - while undoubtedly a good technical specification as
such - is all too tightly controlled by DVD Consortium, a closed body of
foreign companies. The Chinese government did not quite like the idea that the
domestic home electronics industry would have to pay royalties to foreign
companies in order to manufacture next generation video disc products for
Chinese people. It was calculated that creating a royalty-free, full-fledged
video disc format on their own would be a major long-term win for the domestic
industry. Moreover, this was also considered an issue of national pride; an
opportunity to flex some technical muscle, and to send a clear signal to the
outside world that China has enough critical mass to be able to ignore foreign
entertainment standards it does not want to conform to. (Chinese politicians
and researchers are now keen to celebrate SVCD as the first international
high-tech standard that has been developed in China.) Finally, it was also
thought that a Chinese video disc standard would help in pressuring the DVD
Consortium to keep the licensing fees down, at least for the Chinese market.
Yeah we all know college is a party, but carrying stories like this, where an acredited learning institutions students are wasting their research time with such frivoulus pursuits makes CS look bad in general.
If I were an ulumni I would be less inclined to donate.
I do the same man, I work at a karaoke club though.
Do you drink OTJ? I'm allowed to but I have more fun staying sober all night. Do you notice when you don't drink you can actually tell how drunk the crowd is by the amount of alchohol on their breath? It's like a beowulf cluster of beer breath in my club because people are packed so tightly. The more beer I smell, the more I know shits gonna get crazy.
I got one from radio shack for my 5yro nephew. After the purchase I was obligated to test it for any bugs or defects. The one I "tested" had some sort of issue with it, I couldn't give my nephew something that was defective. So I decided to keep the defective one and get another one for my nephew.
Really fun taking bong rips and watching these little things run around in circles.
What's the best way to discredit somebody? With slander/libel/rumors.
While it's true that there are a lot of bloggers out of work, there isn't really a lot of alternatives for us pasty ass geeks that just wanna make boxes do neat things.
A buddy of mine just got an 18k enlistment bonus, he's 35, tow truck driver. He's gonna drive gasonline tankers for the army. He had a skill they wanted. Nevermind the fact that he's 6'2" 260lbs.
I went down to the recruitment office and told the recruiting officer "Hey I got 7 years experience as a sysadmin, I can build networks, I can set up servers, i'm really good at fixing things! I'm only 29 to boot!"
He just sort of looked at me like I was in the wrong place. After finding out the army could only use me as either cannon fodder, latrine digger, or a cook, without a bonus, I figured I didn't really have a future there.
Going on to John Ashcrofts Homeland Security Guard courses, I just looked at those people in their silly "I wanna be a cop" costumes and snickered.
Sorry washington post, but it seems all the USA wants right now is cops, security officers and army personal. You say that bloggers are jobless, well fuck, what other options are we cut out for then???
Most of the people I know in my field are not bullies, and do not enjoy placing control on other people. We're just not cut out for that kind of work mentally or physically, and WP want's to talk trash about us?
Whats next? Are you going to say those people in the special olympics are slow?
Heh.
The white house is filled with the idiot son of an idiot. Why do I have this mental picture of GWB looking for the "any key"
Exactly my point! LCD is crap for gaming, OLED is a much better prospect. OLED would have been a better choice here too since you can squeeze 20 OLED screens in the space of 2 LED screens.
The reason LCD sucks so bad for gaming is just like I pointed out, those crystals are a moving part, and it takes time for them to change alignment. With OLED you just pass a current BLAM lit pixel. Drop current and BLAM unlit pixel. LED you pass current to the crytals, wait for them to change alignment so the light can pass through. Same thing goes for turning a pixel off, wait time.
a little ms here, a little ms there, and it adds up.
Lately i've seen this commercial run alot lately. Is this what you mean by Ashcroftian Superpowers?
[Ashcroft comes in stage left] [Ashcroft]Hi i'm josh ashcroft, head of Homeland security, a newly formed branch of the goverment dedicated to fight the threats we face today. [wipe to ground zero 9/11] We're looking for patriotic americans who want to help their country protect its citizens from these threats. There are many exciting oppertunities for those americans [wipe to 4 panel picture showing congress building, american flag, an astronaut, and some field of wheat] We're offering training to qualified individuals to pursue these careers [fade to two dumb looking rent a pigs with shit eating grins on their faces] -----end commercial-------
I saw that commercial and I was sooo pissed. Here i've been eating ramen for the last 2 years, and the best GWB has to offer us now is a rent a pig job?? I mean fuck, cmon people wake up.
9/11 was bad, very bad. Nothing good at all could have ever come from it. It just feels a little too weird and paranoid right now though. Police departments everywhere are hiring, security guard companies are hiring, the Army gave a 35 yro tow truck driver buddy of mine a 18k enlistment bonus to drive gas tankers. The writing is on the wall folks, I think for the first time in a long time, america is going to war.
The thought of a draft is very scarey to me. All of the slashdot employees are of draft age, they should think about it too. The times ahead are nothing I want to be heading into. The turmoil of this paranoia vortex will rip this country to shreds.
True that LCD's are pretty, lightweight to carry, ect. These 3D LCD monitors seem pretty neat, I can feel the eye strain from it already. Anyone that has spent over 4 hours playing any game knows that a CRT with a refresh rate of 100hz can keep your eyeballs from popping out of their sockets.
On the other hand, LCD's look smart, and will get you hand jobs from women you don't even know! Of course, after 4 hours of gaming on this thing you'll be blind as a bat, so it won't matter if she looks like Nicole Bass from the Howard Stern show or Hally Berry. You're eyes will neatly pop out of their sockets from the low refresh rate strain.
LCD is simply too slow to have an effective refresh rate for 3D. OLED's look promising, since they don't have any moving parts to rely on. (LCD crystals change orientation when a current is passed through them (i.e. moving part)
With a combination of a prickly bios password and some sort of hardware lockout?
I had a crackhead friend bring me one of these recently asking if I could make it work. I spent about 10 minutes reading posts about the hardware lockout and figured out it wouldn't happen without him calling dell. It was of questionable origin and he did not want to do that.
He then insisted on leaving it at my house for two fucking weeks insisting that i'm a computer genius and I could figure it out, despite the documention I had read.
Two weeks later he came back accusing me of being too lazy to have a look at it. Isn't that just the way it goes when you're the computer fixit guy?
Re:It goes even deeper then that!
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You think those are a laugh!
The other night i'm watching midnight run on toonami. TOONAMI! and John ashcroft comes on.
He starts telling how patriotic americans all over are taking these "Homeland Security" Courses and goes on to explain how there's a great future in homeland security
Fade Transition
Shows 2 guys with shit eating grins in security guard outfits.
So now instead of giving schools money to teach kids how to program, build networks, and cool shit like that they want everyone to be a rent-a-pig.
I liked it better when our president got blowjobs from his intern and anyone that could click start>run>Microsoft Frontpage was a webmaster.
GWB sucks.
I never thought I would see the day /. and .gov
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would be barebacked doin the nasty sleepin in bed together. I think slash has fallen to an all new low.
We all know GWB and his little gang of croonies have been silently moving to gain "control" over the internet. They've enlisted the help of the RIAA and MPAA plus their teams of lawers to overpower the routers of major backbone providers with threats of bankrupcy. Those that play ball such as AT&T will have their right of way taxes deferred, those like worlcom will have to suffer.
They want it controlled for "our safety" "We don't want no stinkin terrorist using "Our network" to transmit dirty messages to bad 'ol osama (read satan)
They want it controlled to keep the ever slipping grip of media copyright back in the hands of the huge players like sony, virgin, capitol records, ect. Who cares if it hurts the smaller labels.
And killing 802.11 would be a major win to them because it's such a "pirate radio station" They can't control it and that scares them. The worst thing is seeing slash become party to the "psychological warfare and FUD" the.gov is trying to spread about 802.11
I can't really comment about the technical aspects of if this REALLY affects radar, but as an american citizen watching this issue, I can.
A smart person would look at thier reasons and say, "Hmm, messages, oh yeah, PGP mail... and uh people trading MP3, well can't do much there unless you cut off their ears"
Instead of letting the smart people address this issue they're trying to play on our emotions and get the mob riled up. You are not a good american if you run a public 802.11 node. You are not patriotic for sharing MP3's. You're in bed with the terrorist for using encrypted e-mail.
Well, this message too will probably be modded into oblivion too. As i'm sure/. has been given it's walking papers by the man. Either convince your.5 million readers we're right or we pull the plug. Fucking shameful, just shameful.
Something like that, I know the passthrough function executes a command locally, then spits the output back through http. So basically you would write a php script like the one above, name it"time.php" or something like that.
To synch, you could just use wget.
wget http://yourtimeserver.com/time.php
Then a little perl magic (i'm lost with the chompin and stuff, don't ask me)
The alternative is wiring up each base station to a DSL or other landline
Having worked there, I know what they did use for their land lines.
It was a routine brag that their WAP's were wired up with T1 lines, and how they were pac bells biggest customer. I forget the exact number of t1's they had scattered around, but considering SDSL is about an 1/8th of the cost if the new owners used SDSL instead of the old t1 lines, i'd bet they could turn a good profit.
Looking at the pricing though, $99@ month for that slow ass POS connection is a joke. I doubt the cool stuff that they used to offer (Like TMA, and modem to modem dialing through the network) won't be availiable at that price.
If ricochet REALLY wants to come back from the dead, they should change the price structure. How much do these things really cost to make with todays manufacturing processes? Ricochet's been around about 8 years, so according to moores law the $300 they cost back in 1994 retail should be down to $60 dollars now.
I guess the only real value ricochet has is the fact that they've laid the network, unfortunately the new owners haven't priced according to moores law and simple depriciation.
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Trust me I know where India is, without even looking on a map I know it borders pakistan, the hindu religion and indian culture has influenced countries such as malaysia, where 1/3 of the population speaks indian.
:(
Also to note, India has had quite and interesting history to boot. It's the birthplace of ghandi, despite having a tech boom right now, it still has one of the worst problems with homelessness. Serious, there are beggars all over the streets. The murderous kali cult that was hunted down by the british was pretty interesting bit of history too.
Unfortunately you missed the entire point of my satire, it's funny, laugh at it. Too bad your sense of humor isn't as sophisticated as the moderators.
I'm going to ask you a straight question, I hope you refresh your slashdot page soon enough to hit me back with a reply.
Do you want to become an american citizen? Because America the meltin pot is what USED to make us great.
True, we have a lot of terrible talent in our country, but since the days of "green card" labor we have allowed ourselves to say "It's cool to devaluate humans"
Basically, a green card, or H1B visa is wrong on so many different levels if you are an american with a biased opinion. I doubt you would speak with a harsh tone in your voice if you had citizenship.
It doesn't work like that! you don't deserve the job.
So you don't deserve a right to become United states citizen, yet you welcome us to pay you a measly severance, with no benifits simply because you see an oppertunity to make money? Bub, you got no Social Security checks coming to you, you can't vote on policies or new laws. You can't help elect officials by vote, or participate in our judicial systems of jury trials.
Yeah, we did this 200 years ago, Americans used to crate large sailing ships full of Africans. When they got here they had no rights either. They couldn't participate because they were property, 0wn3d if you will. Eventually we figured out that it was bad to attatch a peice of paper that announced 0w3rship over another human and those bad things we used to do stopped.
But now, instead of having slaves with no human rights and no citizen rights, we have slaves with no citizen rights. Still think H1-B is great?
Again, you cannot vote, you can be deported in a blink of an eye (good luck finding a job if you get canned) You are living a lie by telling yourself this is a good thing. Quit deluding yourself into thinking it's anything but that.
Basically you are a foriegn letch on our system. You take up space yet you don't contribute to the american way of life. If everyone in america was H1-B basically all occupants (since they are not citizens) would lose all rights to the very democratic system that grants us our freedoms to vote and such as americans. Pretty fucked deal if you ask me.
On top of that, you still recieve benifits from your country of origin. Last time I checked canada has a pretty rocking health care system.
I don't believe what you said about underqualified american canidates. I live in silicon valley. Stanford, San Jose State, USF, and despite rumors of being dead Berkley has the highest concentration of computer geeks in the world. Despite what you say about there not being enough canidates, I can point you to at least 5 guys that could explain the difference between an abstract base class and a regular class that can't even get a fucking job at Albertsons bagging groceries. Any drive up the 101 will show you all the empty office space.
Yeah, I've worked with a few Canadians. Definetly some of the smartest people I ever knew. But don't go fooling yourself into thinking H1-B is good for america because it's not. Personally i'd rather have you naturlized as an American than being corporate equivelent of a disposable slave.
Yes folks, I have realized, as an american citizen I stand NO chance of getting a tech job right now. So I put my plan into action.
/end satire
I'll renounce my american citizenship, fly to india, marry a native woman (to gain indian citizenship) and change my last name to Ha-beeb. Then, and only then will I apply for an american job under H1B visa laws. AND I'LL GET THE JOB WOOHOO!!! Oh and let's not forget, I'll need to bring 8k with me for that phony CS degree.
Boy will my bosses be surprised when they see toqer Ha-Beeb is really a white dude that speaks perfect english! They might even sponsor me to become an american citizen again!
my 2 word rebute...
doom 3
M.A.V.V. is a parody right? Maybe i'm just a tad slow today, but the whole site is a parody right?
Didn't Cruesoes ship sink and he was stranded on a tropical isle? (BaBumP!)
Unless you are doing a weekly sweep of your network, and documenting the changes, any network, wired or wireless is suspectable to comprimise.
Using any cheap hub, a few gel cell batteries, and some cat5 wiring knowledge, a person with physical access to the building could hide a 802.11 unit in the ceiling tile, crawlspace, outdoors in the bushes, and for the duration of the charge create a gateway into said network. Add a device (such as the dreamcast) or comprimise a computer internally to broadcast and it becomes darn near untracable.
The major problem with most 802.11 installs is the admin simple does not do enough accounting and locking down on their network. If they would just reject all unknown mac addresses and accept from a known list WITH the added benifit of encypting all the traffic there would be NOTHING to worry about.
Why doesn't someone just point that out to them? Hey Japan out of work IT dude right here in USA--I stay up all night PST playin EQ so we're on the same time zone pretty much (ba-bump)
I can SSH remotely I'll work cheaper than any indian too (baBumpTa!)
Here's a link,
Here's a link,
why don't I just
link the google search page?
Anyone remember memory metals? They were sort of a greeting card fad for a
while..You would mail a loved one what looked like an unbent paper clip, with
instructions to dip it into hot coffee. Upon hitting the hot coffee the metal
would bend itself into a message. Really neat stuff if you ever got to play with
it.
Get a sattelite with a HUGE fricken laser beam attatched to it's forhead?
From the SVCD faq
was decided that DVD - while undoubtedly a good technical specification as
such - is all too tightly controlled by DVD Consortium, a closed body of
foreign companies. The Chinese government did not quite like the idea that the
domestic home electronics industry would have to pay royalties to foreign
companies in order to manufacture next generation video disc products for
Chinese people. It was calculated that creating a royalty-free, full-fledged
video disc format on their own would be a major long-term win for the domestic
industry. Moreover, this was also considered an issue of national pride; an
opportunity to flex some technical muscle, and to send a clear signal to the
outside world that China has enough critical mass to be able to ignore foreign
entertainment standards it does not want to conform to. (Chinese politicians
and researchers are now keen to celebrate SVCD as the first international
high-tech standard that has been developed in China.) Finally, it was also
thought that a Chinese video disc standard would help in pressuring the DVD
Consortium to keep the licensing fees down, at least for the Chinese market.
Yeah we all know college is a party, but carrying stories like this, where an acredited learning institutions students are wasting their research time with such frivoulus pursuits makes CS look bad in general.
If I were an ulumni I would be less inclined to donate.
I do the same man, I work at a karaoke club though.
:/
:)
Do you drink OTJ? I'm allowed to but I have more fun staying sober all night. Do you notice when you don't drink you can actually tell how drunk the crowd is by the amount of alchohol on their breath? It's like a beowulf cluster of beer breath in my club because people are packed so tightly. The more beer I smell, the more I know shits gonna get crazy.
Leave it to a geek to look at shit like that
Cheers
You can't knock these till you try em.
I got one from radio shack for my 5yro nephew. After the purchase I was obligated to test it for any bugs or defects. The one I "tested" had some sort of issue with it, I couldn't give my nephew something that was defective. So I decided to keep the defective one and get another one for my nephew.
Really fun taking bong rips and watching these little things run around in circles.
This doesn't surprise me one bit....
What's the best way to discredit somebody? With slander/libel/rumors.
While it's true that there are a lot of bloggers out of work, there isn't really a lot of alternatives for us pasty ass geeks that just wanna make boxes do neat things.
A buddy of mine just got an 18k enlistment bonus, he's 35, tow truck driver. He's gonna drive gasonline tankers for the army. He had a skill they wanted. Nevermind the fact that he's 6'2" 260lbs.
I went down to the recruitment office and told the recruiting officer "Hey I got 7 years experience as a sysadmin, I can build networks, I can set up servers, i'm really good at fixing things! I'm only 29 to boot!"
He just sort of looked at me like I was in the wrong place. After finding out the army could only use me as either cannon fodder, latrine digger, or a cook, without a bonus, I figured I didn't really have a future there.
Going on to John Ashcrofts Homeland Security Guard courses, I just looked at those people in their silly "I wanna be a cop" costumes and snickered.
Sorry washington post, but it seems all the USA wants right now is cops, security officers and army personal. You say that bloggers are jobless, well fuck, what other options are we cut out for then???
Most of the people I know in my field are not bullies, and do not enjoy placing control on other people. We're just not cut out for that kind of work mentally or physically, and WP want's to talk trash about us?
Whats next? Are you going to say those people in the special olympics are slow?
Heh.
The white house is filled with the idiot son of an idiot. Why do I have this mental picture of GWB looking for the "any key"
f00k j00 twit. You could have come back with an intelligent argument but you called me a moron. F00k Y00.
And I gotta get down to 7-11 before they outlaw pringles cans!
Exactly my point! LCD is crap for gaming, OLED is a much better prospect. OLED would have been a better choice here too since you can squeeze 20 OLED screens in the space of 2 LED screens.
The reason LCD sucks so bad for gaming is just like I pointed out, those crystals are a moving part, and it takes time for them to change alignment. With OLED you just pass a current BLAM lit pixel. Drop current and BLAM unlit pixel. LED you pass current to the crytals, wait for them to change alignment so the light can pass through. Same thing goes for turning a pixel off, wait time.
a little ms here, a little ms there, and it adds up.
Let's give ourselves Ashcroftian superpowers
Lately i've seen this commercial run alot lately. Is this what you mean by Ashcroftian Superpowers?
[Ashcroft comes in stage left]
[Ashcroft]Hi i'm josh ashcroft, head of Homeland security, a newly formed branch of the goverment dedicated to fight the threats we face today.
[wipe to ground zero 9/11]
We're looking for patriotic americans who want to help their country protect its citizens from these threats. There are many exciting oppertunities for those americans
[wipe to 4 panel picture showing congress building, american flag, an astronaut, and some field of wheat]
We're offering training to qualified individuals to pursue these careers
[fade to two dumb looking rent a pigs with shit eating grins on their faces]
-----end commercial-------
I saw that commercial and I was sooo pissed. Here i've been eating ramen for the last 2 years, and the best GWB has to offer us now is a rent a pig job?? I mean fuck, cmon people wake up.
9/11 was bad, very bad. Nothing good at all could have ever come from it. It just feels a little too weird and paranoid right now though. Police departments everywhere are hiring, security guard companies are hiring, the Army gave a 35 yro tow truck driver buddy of mine a 18k enlistment bonus to drive gas tankers. The writing is on the wall folks, I think for the first time in a long time, america is going to war.
The thought of a draft is very scarey to me. All of the slashdot employees are of draft age, they should think about it too. The times ahead are nothing I want to be heading into. The turmoil of this paranoia vortex will rip this country to shreds.
It's bad times right now.
True that LCD's are pretty, lightweight to carry, ect. These 3D LCD monitors seem pretty neat, I can feel the eye strain from it already. Anyone that has spent over 4 hours playing any game knows that a CRT with a refresh rate of 100hz can keep your eyeballs from popping out of their sockets.
On the other hand, LCD's look smart, and will get you hand jobs from women you don't even know! Of course, after 4 hours of gaming on this thing you'll be blind as a bat, so it won't matter if she looks like Nicole Bass from the Howard Stern show or Hally Berry. You're eyes will neatly pop out of their sockets from the low refresh rate strain.
LCD is simply too slow to have an effective refresh rate for 3D. OLED's look promising, since they don't have any moving parts to rely on. (LCD crystals change orientation when a current is passed through them (i.e. moving part)
Gotta love these gimmicks though..
With a combination of a prickly bios password and some sort of hardware lockout?
I had a crackhead friend bring me one of these recently asking if I could make it work. I spent about 10 minutes reading posts about the hardware lockout and figured out it wouldn't happen without him calling dell. It was of questionable origin and he did not want to do that.
He then insisted on leaving it at my house for two fucking weeks insisting that i'm a computer genius and I could figure it out, despite the documention I had read.
Two weeks later he came back accusing me of being too lazy to have a look at it. Isn't that just the way it goes when you're the computer fixit guy?
You think those are a laugh!
The other night i'm watching midnight run on toonami. TOONAMI! and John ashcroft comes on.
He starts telling how patriotic americans all over are taking these "Homeland Security" Courses and goes on to explain how there's a great future in homeland security
Fade Transition
Shows 2 guys with shit eating grins in security guard outfits.
So now instead of giving schools money to teach kids how to program, build networks, and cool shit like that they want everyone to be a rent-a-pig.
I liked it better when our president got blowjobs from his intern and anyone that could click start>run>Microsoft Frontpage was a webmaster.
GWB sucks.
would be barebacked doin the nasty sleepin in bed together. I think slash has fallen to an all new low.
.gov is trying to spread about 802.11
/. has been given it's walking papers by the man. Either convince your .5 million readers we're right or we pull the plug. Fucking shameful, just shameful.
We all know GWB and his little gang of croonies have been silently moving to gain "control" over the internet. They've enlisted the help of the RIAA and MPAA plus their teams of lawers to overpower the routers of major backbone providers with threats of bankrupcy. Those that play ball such as AT&T will have their right of way taxes deferred, those like worlcom will have to suffer.
They want it controlled for "our safety" "We don't want no stinkin terrorist using "Our network" to transmit dirty messages to bad 'ol osama (read satan)
They want it controlled to keep the ever slipping grip of media copyright back in the hands of the huge players like sony, virgin, capitol records, ect. Who cares if it hurts the smaller labels.
And killing 802.11 would be a major win to them because it's such a "pirate radio station" They can't control it and that scares them. The worst thing is seeing slash become party to the "psychological warfare and FUD" the
I can't really comment about the technical aspects of if this REALLY affects radar, but as an american citizen watching this issue, I can.
A smart person would look at thier reasons and say, "Hmm, messages, oh yeah, PGP mail... and uh people trading MP3, well can't do much there unless you cut off their ears"
Instead of letting the smart people address this issue they're trying to play on our emotions and get the mob riled up. You are not a good american if you run a public 802.11 node. You are not patriotic for sharing MP3's. You're in bed with the terrorist for using encrypted e-mail.
Well, this message too will probably be modded into oblivion too. As i'm sure
I'm a PHP n00b but..
Something like that, I know the passthrough function executes a command locally, then spits the output back through http. So basically you would write a php script like the one above, name it"time.php" or something like that.
To synch, you could just use wget.
wget http://yourtimeserver.com/time.php
Then a little perl magic (i'm lost with the chompin and stuff, don't ask me)
and voila, psuedo NTP over http.
The alternative is wiring up each base station to a DSL or other landline
Having worked there, I know what they did use for their land lines.
It was a routine brag that their WAP's were wired up with T1 lines, and how they were pac bells biggest customer. I forget the exact number of t1's they had scattered around, but considering SDSL is about an 1/8th of the cost if the new owners used SDSL instead of the old t1 lines, i'd bet they could turn a good profit.
Looking at the pricing though, $99@ month for that slow ass POS connection is a joke. I doubt the cool stuff that they used to offer (Like TMA, and modem to modem dialing through the network) won't be availiable at that price.
If ricochet REALLY wants to come back from the dead, they should change the price structure.
How much do these things really cost to make with todays manufacturing processes? Ricochet's been around about 8 years, so according to moores law the $300 they cost back in 1994 retail should be down to $60 dollars now.
I guess the only real value ricochet has is the fact that they've laid the network, unfortunately the new owners haven't priced according to moores law and simple depriciation.
Oh well, watch these guys die too.