I'm not sure if this is the part of the scene they're adding back in, but some time ago I came across a short piece of audio cut from the Castle Anthrax scene of the movie. In case anyone wants to hear it, I just uploaded it to some of my webspace here
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
If I remember correctly, the average version of Windows BSODs when you remove a floppy while its writing.
Win9x isn't even in the same league, and was never meant to be
I don't disagree that it's in a different league, but I do disagree with the point you're making. I think if you're writing an OS thats going to be used by Joe Blow Newbie(which Microsoft does--or tries to do--with its consumer OSes), I'd think you'd want to make the thing as bullet proof as possible from the user at the keyboards perspective. How many calls to tech support would be saved if the programmers had taken a few simple steps to protect the user from him/herself? File permissions, proper handling of user errors, etc... all should have been part of any released version of Windows. If for no other reason than that that OS is going to be the first thing newbies are exposed to, and they shouldn't fear making mistakes; we're human, it happens.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
It's Hollywood afterall. How often can Hollywood portray anything in an accurate fashion? *coughPearl Harborcough*. Saving Private Ryan is the only recent movie that I can't remember finding any flaws in (overlooking, of course, that its plot is fiction). Then again, I'm no historian.
(upon double-checking my spelling I noticed that that was "Perl Harbor". heh.)
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
I can't decide whether this is a troll, intended as funny or serious, so just in case it is serious, I'll respond.
I was taught when I was three years old not to pull a floppy disk out of the drive while it's writing. You, sir, apparently did not learn this most crucial-of-crucial tenets of the computing world.
One of the fundamentals of computer programming is code robustness. The idea is simple: assume the user is only minimally computer literate, account for forseeable cases of user error. The author of the post you responded to provided that example as a case which Microsoft should have expected and accounted for. You may know not to remove the disk while the light is on, but there are people out there who don't.
It doesn't represent "quality", it represents "code bloat".
The idea that Linux is code bloated is simply laughable, your copy Linux can only be as bloated as you allow it to be--you have the source code. IMO this is a feature every OS should have, but if you don't want that feature, just remove it from the kernel source and recompile (and I challenge you to try to add it to Windows). With Linux, its not very difficult process. Windows should have learned to crawl before it tried to walk.
And that's MS's main game (extra features), one that no company has beat them on yet.
Ever heard of Netscape? Maybe Apple? Perhaps Sun Microsystems? All companies which produced something innovative and were blatently ripped off and stomped on in the market by Microsoft.
If it took more than half an hour to make such a feature, I can guarantee you it was a waste of time spent
I can't tell you how much time it took to write this, I haven't looked at the source, but I can tell you the reason it's there is because someone, somewhere thought it was worth the time to write. This person, myself, and any computer illiterate users who have benefitted from this code no doubt disagree with you.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
More specificly, if I build a computer and install Redhat Linux on it, i'm not responsible for including a long list with it "thanking" every person who wrote every line of code in linux.
True, but you are legally obligated to abide by the license under which you obtained the software. The article is a bit unclear on whats going on. Obviously, AOL included some proprietary software in the box, along with Midori Linux. Its claiming somewhere, there is a GPL violation. Is it in Midori Linux, or AOLs software? It can't be the latter, which isn't distributed under the GPL. Did AOL modify the version of Midori included in the box? The article implies this case(and as the thing has only something like a total 128 megs(96 of which is RAM), I'd say its fairly likely). If so, it may very well have violated the GPL, if AOL, for instance stripped any GPL notifications out of the software. If AOL didn't modify Midori, then, either the author is just an AOL hater, like you said, or Midori, and therefore Transmeta, violates the GPL. IMO, the article needs to be a bit more clear on what part of the software has No notices of copyright holders. No disclaimer of warranty. No source code and no directions on where and how to get the source code. No copy of the GPL, or at least none accessible or viewable from the interface provided by Gateway or America Online. No notice in the interface or help files about what is and isn't covered under the license.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Simply boycott Asus products, there are mounds of competitors products who are just as good and produced by companies that listen to their consumers(the drivers were leaked before the poll was even started for those that didn't know). Hit 'em in the pocket book and they'll not soon forget that we don't want then screwing with our games, hit them hard enough, and they become a grim reminder to other companies not to try something so horrible. If you don't think its necessary to strike back, I ask you, what's to stop other companies from doing the same thing? Asus now has a marketing point to exploit: their products really do make you better at games than others, if this point is not made undesirable, other companies will adopt it. Personally, I will never buy another Asus product regardless of what they say now; they've already proven themselves an unscrupulous company in my mind. It was obvious from the beginning what these drivers would be used for.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Anyone who's ever played CS knows the intensity of crouching behind a box, hiding behind a corner or ducking in a vent, waiting to make your move. If your enemy could just look up and see someone waiting in the vents, why not jump in behind the enemy and blow his head off?
Why just just shoot through the box?
I'm an admin on a CounterStrike server, and I have seen many a cheater. Fortunately, most of them are so blatent or incredibly stupid that they're caught. One that I remember distictly shot me directly in the head through a wall while I was silently waiting to ambush him when he rounded the corner, in two consecutive rounds in different positions. Cheaters of that variety aren't the worst of them, there was another guy, a smarter one, who it took us weeks to catch onto, because he knew who the admins were and would simply not do anything suspicious while they were playing. Eventually the server's owner, playing under a different name caught him. I have no doubt there are probably cheaters that we've never caught, who may still be playing on our server. So, unfortunately you can't really say you _will_ be found out because the smart ones will get away with it until someone figures out how to stop it all together.
-"[OSG] Hugh Jass"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
making the punishment a 2000 word report on exactly how you broke in and suggestions on how to fix the hole
And perhaps taken one step further, have the kid try to break into the system. If he can do it and make them aware of the holes before anyone else gets ahold of them without fear of retribution, we have a win-win situation. The kid gets to hone his computer skills, and the school district gets a tougher system. Maybe not even have him actively trying to break the system, just have him there for advice and utility. When I was in 11th grade, my high schools technical coordinator sat me and a friend of mine down at a system and said, "This computer has a security system installed, we need to access some features it blocks, no one knows the password. Get through the security." This school district really needs to rethink their stategies for "channel[ing] his energies in a more positive direction".
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
The sharpness of the pictures suggest that they were taken through the same lens...But we know that each film section was exposed through a different filter. So either the filter was changed (automatically or manually) between each frame, or he invented complex third-silvered mirror appartuses. The former is a lot more technologically believable.
I don't know anything about optics, but suppose you had some sort of prism inside a camera, could it seperate the colors and allow all three frames to be exposed at the same time? Or would that distort the image to the point as to be useless?
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Theres another artifact in this one. This ones a bit odd, there are 3 dots of the colors in the center of the road between the houses. If it too was caused by slightly different positions of the lenses, why do the rest of the colors at that depth line up? Or if it was a fast moving object, what was it? Could it be a lense flare?
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Shouldn't be too difficult. I just did a quick search on Janes for "high altitude SAM" and found an article about a Surface to Air Missile China has been working on.
The missile has also been improved by upgrading the dual thrust solid-propellant motor and it now has a maximum stated range of up to 50km and a maximum effective altitude of 88,560ft. It is not known whether the high-explosive fragmentation warhead of the missile with its radio-frequency proximity fuze has been improved.
As you can see, that missile goes well beyond the necessary 65,000 feet. The article is here.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Correct me if I'm wrong here, but if the case is found to be frivolous(sp?)(which IMO it appears) not only is it thrown out of court, but the plaintiff must pay all costs of bringing the case to court, including, you guessed it, all the legal fees of those companies who they sued. I wouldn't be surprized to see this happen, its obvious they're only in it for the money. Seems like a dangerous move for the lawyer and his clients to me.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
On Friday, Thompson made public a letter he has sent to John Carmack, one of the original "Doom" creators and founder of Texas-based id Software, on behalf of the Todd family.
He called on Carmack to prohibit the sale and distribution of all video games rated for mature audiences to children under 17 - and to do it by April 30
Since when does Carmack have anything to do with how the engines he writes get distributed? Does he stand in every store that sells Quake3 and say "Lets see some ID before you buy that."? Furthermore, this whole thing is silly. How many of those of us on slashdot played Doom before we were 17? I know I did. Probably started around age 13, and I played Wolfenstein before that. And how many of us are vicious killers? Few, if any. The point is, you have severely disturbed before you get ahold of these games for them to turn you into a killer. Finger pointing gets you no where. I think it shows severely bad taste for these families to sue two years after this happened. It appears they're just seeking to profit off the loss of a loved one.</rant>
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
First line in the article: Researchers at a South Korean laboratory think they have come up with a breakthrough Note the word "think". Translation: vaporware. I'll believe it when I'm pinning one to the wall.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
If you haven't tried it, I highly recommend Half-Life(single player, get CounterStrike if you want to play online). It's a pleasant blend of nice technology and intriguing story. I've played it all the way through something like 5 times.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
If that's true this may be a good thing for Linux then. Think about it, what keeps users coming back to Windows? Two things: 1. They already have the software, 2. They know how to use that software. If MS breaks too much of their backward compatibility, their monopoly crumbles from under them when both of those two conditions are no longer met and people start looking for alternatives that, in Microsoft's own words, "meet their needs". If it were a simple matter of recompiling, I hardly think that qualifies as breaking the current encoders. The recompile possibility wouldn't do anything to bolster Linux, but would also, however, not change the state of MP3 usage, people just download the software they want and not use MS's intentionally mediocre software(Isn't it ironic that a company notorious for bad software is now passing it off as intentional?). I don't see anything bad coming from this; things either stay the same or get better.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
In the article it says his fuel won't catch fire. How does he run a combustion engine off the stuff? My understanding of engines is that fuel mixture is sent into the cylinders where it explodes, forcing the piston in that cylinder down and another in a different cylinder up.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Slashdot Mirror
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Win9x isn't even in the same league, and was never meant to be
I don't disagree that it's in a different league, but I do disagree with the point you're making. I think if you're writing an OS thats going to be used by Joe Blow Newbie(which Microsoft does--or tries to do--with its consumer OSes), I'd think you'd want to make the thing as bullet proof as possible from the user at the keyboards perspective. How many calls to tech support would be saved if the programmers had taken a few simple steps to protect the user from him/herself? File permissions, proper handling of user errors, etc... all should have been part of any released version of Windows. If for no other reason than that that OS is going to be the first thing newbies are exposed to, and they shouldn't fear making mistakes; we're human, it happens.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
(upon double-checking my spelling I noticed that that was "Perl Harbor". heh.)
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
I was taught when I was three years old not to pull a floppy disk out of the drive while it's writing. You, sir, apparently did not learn this most crucial-of-crucial tenets of the computing world.
One of the fundamentals of computer programming is code robustness. The idea is simple: assume the user is only minimally computer literate, account for forseeable cases of user error. The author of the post you responded to provided that example as a case which Microsoft should have expected and accounted for. You may know not to remove the disk while the light is on, but there are people out there who don't.
It doesn't represent "quality", it represents "code bloat".
The idea that Linux is code bloated is simply laughable, your copy Linux can only be as bloated as you allow it to be--you have the source code. IMO this is a feature every OS should have, but if you don't want that feature, just remove it from the kernel source and recompile (and I challenge you to try to add it to Windows). With Linux, its not very difficult process. Windows should have learned to crawl before it tried to walk.
And that's MS's main game (extra features), one that no company has beat them on yet.
Ever heard of Netscape? Maybe Apple? Perhaps Sun Microsystems? All companies which produced something innovative and were blatently ripped off and stomped on in the market by Microsoft.
If it took more than half an hour to make such a feature, I can guarantee you it was a waste of time spent
I can't tell you how much time it took to write this, I haven't looked at the source, but I can tell you the reason it's there is because someone, somewhere thought it was worth the time to write. This person, myself, and any computer illiterate users who have benefitted from this code no doubt disagree with you.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
True, but you are legally obligated to abide by the license under which you obtained the software. The article is a bit unclear on whats going on. Obviously, AOL included some proprietary software in the box, along with Midori Linux. Its claiming somewhere, there is a GPL violation. Is it in Midori Linux, or AOLs software? It can't be the latter, which isn't distributed under the GPL. Did AOL modify the version of Midori included in the box? The article implies this case(and as the thing has only something like a total 128 megs(96 of which is RAM), I'd say its fairly likely). If so, it may very well have violated the GPL, if AOL, for instance stripped any GPL notifications out of the software. If AOL didn't modify Midori, then, either the author is just an AOL hater, like you said, or Midori, and therefore Transmeta, violates the GPL. IMO, the article needs to be a bit more clear on what part of the software has No notices of copyright holders. No disclaimer of warranty. No source code and no directions on where and how to get the source code. No copy of the GPL, or at least none accessible or viewable from the interface provided by Gateway or America Online. No notice in the interface or help files about what is and isn't covered under the license.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Why just just shoot through the box?
I'm an admin on a CounterStrike server, and I have seen many a cheater. Fortunately, most of them are so blatent or incredibly stupid that they're caught. One that I remember distictly shot me directly in the head through a wall while I was silently waiting to ambush him when he rounded the corner, in two consecutive rounds in different positions. Cheaters of that variety aren't the worst of them, there was another guy, a smarter one, who it took us weeks to catch onto, because he knew who the admins were and would simply not do anything suspicious while they were playing. Eventually the server's owner, playing under a different name caught him. I have no doubt there are probably cheaters that we've never caught, who may still be playing on our server. So, unfortunately you can't really say you _will_ be found out because the smart ones will get away with it until someone figures out how to stop it all together. -"[OSG] Hugh Jass"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
And perhaps taken one step further, have the kid try to break into the system. If he can do it and make them aware of the holes before anyone else gets ahold of them without fear of retribution, we have a win-win situation. The kid gets to hone his computer skills, and the school district gets a tougher system. Maybe not even have him actively trying to break the system, just have him there for advice and utility. When I was in 11th grade, my high schools technical coordinator sat me and a friend of mine down at a system and said, "This computer has a security system installed, we need to access some features it blocks, no one knows the password. Get through the security." This school district really needs to rethink their stategies for "channel[ing] his energies in a more positive direction".
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
I don't know anything about optics, but suppose you had some sort of prism inside a camera, could it seperate the colors and allow all three frames to be exposed at the same time? Or would that distort the image to the point as to be useless?
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
The missile has also been improved by upgrading the dual thrust solid-propellant motor and it now has a maximum stated range of up to 50km and a maximum effective altitude of 88,560ft. It is not known whether the high-explosive fragmentation warhead of the missile with its radio-frequency proximity fuze has been improved.
As you can see, that missile goes well beyond the necessary 65,000 feet. The article is here.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Why? Human champions have already been beaten by computers, and I'm sure todays AI plays even better than Deep Blue did.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
He called on Carmack to prohibit the sale and distribution of all video games rated for mature audiences to children under 17 - and to do it by April 30
Since when does Carmack have anything to do with how the engines he writes get distributed? Does he stand in every store that sells Quake3 and say "Lets see some ID before you buy that."? Furthermore, this whole thing is silly. How many of those of us on slashdot played Doom before we were 17? I know I did. Probably started around age 13, and I played Wolfenstein before that. And how many of us are vicious killers? Few, if any. The point is, you have severely disturbed before you get ahold of these games for them to turn you into a killer. Finger pointing gets you no where. I think it shows severely bad taste for these families to sue two years after this happened. It appears they're just seeking to profit off the loss of a loved one.</rant>
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Note the word "think". Translation: vaporware. I'll believe it when I'm pinning one to the wall.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Care to explain your reasoning here?
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
As oppose to what? Having the last two parts of a two part editorial?
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"