Usage Note: The pronunciation (nookyoolar), which is generally considered incorrect, is an example of how a familiar phonological pattern can influence an unfamiliar one. The usual pronunciation of the final two syllables of this word is (-klee-ar), but this sequence of sounds is rare in English. Much more common is the similar sequence (-kyoolar), which occurs in words like particular, circular, spectacular, and in many scientific words like molecular, ocular, and vascular.
He's added a disclaimer at the top of his post since the slashdotting: [[EDIT:
Since I've been slash-dotted on this -- good lord, it's a forum post to an obscure Web site -- I wanted to address some "issues" that people have brought up:
1. I don't know ActiveX programming very well at all. I'm no expert. I'm just pointing out the flaws. It's a useful and interesting technology, it's just dangerous as fuck as well. That's all I'm saying. No, this isn't news, but I didn't intend this forum post to become news to the Web. It's one step removed from a blog.
2. I wasn't trying to write some expose for slashdot or the community at large, I was mostly writing it down for the regular readers of my site who are, by and large, more like friends than they are "readers" or "community members". It wasn't intended to be some revelatory "OMG!!!" moment directed at the world.
3. I highly doubt what I've "revealed" here is news to virus and spyware authors, since they've been writing spyware like this for years now.
4. I use FireFox (and before that, Mozilla, and before that, IE with hardcore security settings), which is why I never realized the extent of ActiveX's stupidity.
5. I haven't worked at id in five years. If that's the only reason to print my comments...don't.
I really think you just want standards. The problem isn't the number of distros. It's "well if I take the time to learn all the ins and outs of RedHat, will I be able to carry that with me to Debian?" If you have some common standards (and there are already a lot in place) then the answer to the question starts to get closer to "absolutely!" The danger in lots of distros going in different direction is that they are percieved and treated as completely different operating systems.
I'm not saying that we actually need some kind of standards body to apply bogus certifications to linux distributions, but it would seem like a partial solution to the "there's to many distros, what do i do?" problem.
Unfortunately, I can't read the details, but I presume this would mean that there's a gcc port for the ps2? Would someone care to discuss how much stuff needs to be modified from one of the original Gentoo releases to get this to work?
I'm sure this is a joke, but in case some people didn't get it, "Class of 1922 Professor" is like his title. It's like saying I'm the C. Mongomery Burns professor in Nuclear Engineering. It's a commemorative position in the department.
I took that class last semester... with professor Rowe (I think it was his first time teaching the class). I think I speak for many people when I say I hate Scheme! I'm glad to be done with it. Of course Scheme as it's place, but nobody should be doing OOP the way it was implemented in that class.
As far as deciding to be in CS goes, I did it because I love it. I loved AP CS in high school and did well in it. However, I don't know why I seem to enjoy it less here. Everything seems so painful. I'm quick to blame the faculty, but I don't know what the problem is.
I was thinking that it ends the cable clutter inside the machine. Partly because of those big IDE ribbons that require twisting to attach to the motherboard and the drives. With this design, the IDE cables do not need to be twisted to meet up to the motherboard connectors; they never change direction as the motherboard lies perpendicular to the drives. I suppose the motherboard is also more accessible because there aren't those drive power cables running all over the place getting in the way when you want to insert a stick of RAM.
Don't you have an inconsistency of units? 1240000000000 characters * 8 bits/character = 9920000000000 bytes characters * bits/character = bits, not bytes. There was no reason to factor in the 8 bits/character, all you need is 1 byte/character. So your final Answer in TB should be divided by 8.
I think? The fact that nobody mentioned this rather frightens me though.
hmm yeah, good point, i couldn't figure that out either, but i do remember gnome having some facility to keep track of them all... if you had the complete gnome installed and not just the bare minimum to run some apps (like i do)
I think generally in the case of both Gnome and KDE, you can specify MIME-types now. I'm pretty sure Gnome has a lot of defaults built in, so if you're running a completely Gnome based system (as in, running gmc or whatever they use now as your shell) then you should have no problem with MIME types.
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding this, but according to the PDF spec sheet, the boiling point of Fluorinert is 30 deg C... I think my CPU temp is somewhere around 50 deg C at the moment, it seems to me that you'd need quite a bit of the stuff being cycled and cooled rapidly as well... hence the need for pumps and fans, right? Isn't that pretty much what the setup is?
i think i would feel obligated to point out that he is smart as hell because, as a matter of stereotype, black people are not known for being smart as hell. asian people are known for being smart as hell. that's the way the stereotypes are. i'm not saying any of them are true, but well, Chuck is smart as hell.
My High school offers APCS along with VB and that crap. We don't have the Mainfunction program or whatever that is, but apparently we still get a lot of MS crap.
Anyway, on to my point... Our APCS class uses a bunch of 386 sx/33s and a few 486s and pentiums networked on coaxial cable, running novell 4 and *gasp* win 3.1. We do all our programming in c++ in borland 4.5. On the other hand, our word processing/VB lab has a bunch of p200s or something networked on 10base-T and ethernet.
Even though we use win 3.1, we are a far cry from MS's goal as a Mainfunction school or whatever. Also, i think if the APCS class was taught on Visual C or something, then we'd all fail the AP test due to Microsoft's redefinition of C.
Okay, so lets say everything in the press release was true, and that at least one of the watermarking technologies has not been cracked. So then this watermark is implemented in SDMI compliant hardware and software.
First of all, what's to stop someone from playing it on noncompliant hw/sw?
Secondly, once players are released, the watermark detection algorithm will be available to anyone with the capacity to reverse engineer. Won't it become a lot easier to crack any such watermark?
As I recall, the contestents in the Hack SDMI challenge were only given 3 samples, a clean sample and two marked samples, one of which matched the clean one. They had to rely on the "oracle" to tell them if it worked or not, thus they had no chance to examine the players.
On side note, the press release said something about "all 447 contestants"; that doesn't seem like very many to me. How could they expect to get an accurate test out of this?
what happens if the EULA has been hexedited out of the installer? At which point, you press "I agree" to a blank box. Doesn't that make you exempt from the conditions of the EULA?
How come the goofy looking switch accepted the human hand when it had less fingers and was all weird shaped? They obvoiusly weren't using a very good identification scheme.
Companies can give (or sell) initial versions of their products to reverse engineers, in the HOPES that a security flaw or bug will be uncovered.
Your suggestion seems akin to the Hack SDMI challenge which was vehemontly opposed by the Slashdot community. Sell stuff to reverse enginners so they can hack it up? That's even worse than HackSDMI, at least they offered some money to the hackers, or whatever.
I know that HackSDMI was hated more for what it represents: the music industry trying to control how we can listen to our music, but there was still the issue of abusing the hacker community.
I strongly support reverse engineering, but it seems to me like you'd like to see reverse engineers exploited in the same way. Part of the concept of reverse enginnering is that those who do it work on their own for themselves, and if they feel like it, for the general good. A company could hire a bunch of resident reverse engineers and do whatever the hell they want inside the company, but once you try to exploit the community by trying to improve your product for free, then you've undermined the hacker mentality as well as the concept of open source, since your product is not open source.
On a semi-related note, maybe the final solution to all this copyright nonsense and the continuing limitation of constitutional as well as reasonable rights is to just abandon copyright all together and we can all be communists. All knowledge belongs to everyone, the government can fund software development... =D I'm getting flamed for this one.... oh well
Slashdot Mirror
here
may be a bit old... it's not up on mirrordot yet
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=nuclear
(I changed the dicionary symbols to regular chars)
I guess that explains why people say it that way.
He's added a disclaimer at the top of his post since the slashdotting:
[[EDIT:
Since I've been slash-dotted on this -- good lord, it's a forum post to an obscure Web site -- I wanted to address some "issues" that people have brought up:
1. I don't know ActiveX programming very well at all. I'm no expert. I'm just pointing out the flaws. It's a useful and interesting technology, it's just dangerous as fuck as well. That's all I'm saying. No, this isn't news, but I didn't intend this forum post to become news to the Web. It's one step removed from a blog.
2. I wasn't trying to write some expose for slashdot or the community at large, I was mostly writing it down for the regular readers of my site who are, by and large, more like friends than they are "readers" or "community members". It wasn't intended to be some revelatory "OMG!!!" moment directed at the world.
3. I highly doubt what I've "revealed" here is news to virus and spyware authors, since they've been writing spyware like this for years now.
4. I use FireFox (and before that, Mozilla, and before that, IE with hardcore security settings), which is why I never realized the extent of ActiveX's stupidity.
5. I haven't worked at id in five years. If that's the only reason to print my comments...don't.
END OF EDIT]]]
I really think you just want standards. The problem isn't the number of distros. It's "well if I take the time to learn all the ins and outs of RedHat, will I be able to carry that with me to Debian?" If you have some common standards (and there are already a lot in place) then the answer to the question starts to get closer to "absolutely!"
The danger in lots of distros going in different direction is that they are percieved and treated as completely different operating systems.
I'm not saying that we actually need some kind of standards body to apply bogus certifications to linux distributions, but it would seem like a partial solution to the "there's to many distros, what do i do?" problem.
Unfortunately, I can't read the details, but I presume this would mean that there's a gcc port for the ps2? Would someone care to discuss how much stuff needs to be modified from one of the original Gentoo releases to get this to work?
I'm sure this is a joke, but in case some people didn't get it, "Class of 1922 Professor" is like his title. It's like saying I'm the C. Mongomery Burns professor in Nuclear Engineering. It's a commemorative position in the department.
I took that class last semester... with professor Rowe (I think it was his first time teaching the class). I think I speak for many people when I say I hate Scheme! I'm glad to be done with it. Of course Scheme as it's place, but nobody should be doing OOP the way it was implemented in that class.
As far as deciding to be in CS goes, I did it because I love it. I loved AP CS in high school and did well in it. However, I don't know why I seem to enjoy it less here. Everything seems so painful. I'm quick to blame the faculty, but I don't know what the problem is.
Oh well... off to take a final... cs 61c...
I was thinking that it ends the cable clutter inside the machine. Partly because of those big IDE ribbons that require twisting to attach to the motherboard and the drives. With this design, the IDE cables do not need to be twisted to meet up to the motherboard connectors; they never change direction as the motherboard lies perpendicular to the drives.
I suppose the motherboard is also more accessible because there aren't those drive power cables running all over the place getting in the way when you want to insert a stick of RAM.
never mind. seems like a lot of people did beat me to the punch.
Don't you have an inconsistency of units?
1240000000000 characters * 8 bits/character = 9920000000000 bytes
characters * bits/character = bits, not bytes.
There was no reason to factor in the 8 bits/character, all you need is 1 byte/character. So your final Answer in TB should be divided by 8.
I think?
The fact that nobody mentioned this rather frightens me though.
hmm yeah, good point, i couldn't figure that out either, but i do remember gnome having some facility to keep track of them all... if you had the complete gnome installed and not just the bare minimum to run some apps (like i do)
I think generally in the case of both Gnome and KDE, you can specify MIME-types now. I'm pretty sure Gnome has a lot of defaults built in, so if you're running a completely Gnome based system (as in, running gmc or whatever they use now as your shell) then you should have no problem with MIME types.
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding this, but according to the PDF spec sheet, the boiling point of Fluorinert is 30 deg C...
I think my CPU temp is somewhere around 50 deg C at the moment, it seems to me that you'd need quite a bit of the stuff being cycled and cooled rapidly as well... hence the need for pumps and fans, right? Isn't that pretty much what the setup is?
i think i would feel obligated to point out that he is smart as hell because, as a matter of stereotype, black people are not known for being smart as hell. asian people are known for being smart as hell. that's the way the stereotypes are. i'm not saying any of them are true, but well, Chuck is smart as hell.
Let's hear it for AP Computer Science!
My High school offers APCS along with VB and that crap. We don't have the Mainfunction program or whatever that is, but apparently we still get a lot of MS crap.
Anyway, on to my point... Our APCS class uses a bunch of 386 sx/33s and a few 486s and pentiums networked on coaxial cable, running novell 4 and *gasp* win 3.1. We do all our programming in c++ in borland 4.5. On the other hand, our word processing/VB lab has a bunch of p200s or something networked on 10base-T and ethernet.
Even though we use win 3.1, we are a far cry from MS's goal as a Mainfunction school or whatever. Also, i think if the APCS class was taught on Visual C or something, then we'd all fail the AP test due to Microsoft's redefinition of C.
you can rent CDs?
what video store is this? i want to rent CDs!
Okay, so lets say everything in the press release was true, and that at least one of the watermarking technologies has not been cracked. So then this watermark is implemented in SDMI compliant hardware and software. First of all, what's to stop someone from playing it on noncompliant hw/sw? Secondly, once players are released, the watermark detection algorithm will be available to anyone with the capacity to reverse engineer. Won't it become a lot easier to crack any such watermark? As I recall, the contestents in the Hack SDMI challenge were only given 3 samples, a clean sample and two marked samples, one of which matched the clean one. They had to rely on the "oracle" to tell them if it worked or not, thus they had no chance to examine the players. On side note, the press release said something about "all 447 contestants"; that doesn't seem like very many to me. How could they expect to get an accurate test out of this?
what happens if the EULA has been hexedited out of the installer? At which point, you press "I agree" to a blank box. Doesn't that make you exempt from the conditions of the EULA?
kewlest is a pronoun? i thought it was an adjective.
oh go tap a tree
i think i got through 40 pages of that book and then gave up.
it won't be a problem as long as we stick to metric and don't forget our dimensional analysis
but then would babies born in 2-3 g be able to adapt before they died? aren't people tied to earth from birth?
How come the goofy looking switch accepted the human hand when it had less fingers and was all weird shaped? They obvoiusly weren't using a very good identification scheme.
Companies can give (or sell) initial versions of their products to reverse engineers, in the HOPES that a security flaw or bug will be uncovered.
Your suggestion seems akin to the Hack SDMI challenge which was vehemontly opposed by the Slashdot community. Sell stuff to reverse enginners so they can hack it up? That's even worse than HackSDMI, at least they offered some money to the hackers, or whatever.
I know that HackSDMI was hated more for what it represents: the music industry trying to control how we can listen to our music, but there was still the issue of abusing the hacker community.
I strongly support reverse engineering, but it seems to me like you'd like to see reverse engineers exploited in the same way. Part of the concept of reverse enginnering is that those who do it work on their own for themselves, and if they feel like it, for the general good. A company could hire a bunch of resident reverse engineers and do whatever the hell they want inside the company, but once you try to exploit the community by trying to improve your product for free, then you've undermined the hacker mentality as well as the concept of open source, since your product is not open source.
On a semi-related note, maybe the final solution to all this copyright nonsense and the continuing limitation of constitutional as well as reasonable rights is to just abandon copyright all together and we can all be communists. All knowledge belongs to everyone, the government can fund software development... =D I'm getting flamed for this one.... oh well