2600 has dumbed itself down over the years; they now publish useless howto hacks for kiddies and bored teenagers. Emmanuel also seems to concern himself more with activism now, than actually doing anything useful.
Phrack always had something sophisticated, unusual, or actually creative. The true hacker spirit, that didn't care that mass media confused 'hacker' with 'cracker', and that didn't wear the term 'hacker' like a merit badge or fashion statement, was very evident in their issues. They published for themselves, and if anyone got anything useful out of, that's great too.
While the true spirit never dies, it's sad to see one of the last vestiges of the old school go under. (btw, they've had 'last issues' before. I'd be surprised if they went away forever.)
"The method allows a DNA sample to be assigned to a fairly specific location, with a relatively high confidence that the assignment is correct. The study indicated that 50 percent of the samples tested were accurately located within 300 miles and 80 percent were accurate to within less than 600 miles."
I don't know... a 300 mile radius is (approx) 283,000 square miles. and 50% doesn't seem like it would be regarded by anyone as 'relatively high'... relative to the other 50%, as it were.
I caught an interview with one of these guys on the BBC last night, and they didn't manage to explain exactly how this would help. The article makes it clearer, in that it seems to be useful for determining in which areas laws should be tightened or relaxed.
But it should be made clear that there won't be truck loads of mobile biologists roaming the savannah and forests looking for poachers... this is a fight that will be fought using legislature. Which is much less glamorous.
I had not realized anything was missing from my window manager experience. But now that I see the screenshots for myself, I cannot wait for the oppurtunity to turn the new eyecandy off in the next release of KDE or Gnome.
*cough* Sorry.
Really great work, guys. I'm pround to see progress. But aside from these uses, what good will it do?
And what's the implication of 'true' transparency? What kind of fake transparency have we all been using up until now?
I got some of these, too. I did some investigating of the attacking computers... appear to be very poorly protected boxes running older versions of linux with older versions of SSH, with web and MySQL services turned on.
In other words, most likely easily compromised machines which are probably not under their owners' control.
That theory is usually true, but more often than not it doesn't hold water
it can't be something and it's polar opposite at the same time.
There is a mathematical theorem about this. Fundamentally, A != -A (unless A=0)
I can't be usually alive, but more often than not dead.
As for the general canard-iness, you didn't address your parent or the quote you quoted: specifically, it was of the form A => B (a implies b). No one's disputing the fact that choice exists, the point is that choice => lowered prices.
Once that's settled, the best format will end up prevailing.
I don't even know where to begin with explaining why this is wrong, but i'll give you three categories, and leave it as an excercise to the reader to investigate further: VCRs, Computer Graphics, and Automobiles.
Oh hell, i'll give you more examples: AC vs DC power (including the 50hz vs 60hz dealie)... Nuclear vs. Coal power... Metric vs. Imperial... Republican vs. Democrat (you get the idea by now)
playing a 352x240 stream encoded at some rediculously low bitrate on my 1600x1200 21" screen is.... well, unacceptable. It doesn't matter how many filters i apply, or what scaling factor or anything. It will still look like crap.
Now, if i go to the bother of making a VCD, and popping it into my DVD player, and watching it on an even bigger screen (~30", i believe), it looks fine.
On the other hand... DVDs look much better (colour-matching aside) in mplayer than on my circa 1980 TV.
There's simply not enough data in a low-bandwidth stream to make it bearable on a PC. Conversely, there's just too much data in a high-bandwidth stream to get all of it displayed properly on a analogue TV.
(and please, don't anyone start on the craptacularness of DVDs on plasma screens)
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"Maybe it's because we're spoiled with the high resolution of computer monitors, but I can barely stand to watch normal TV"
Normal TVs are better at displaying low-bandwidth video streams (think VCDs)... true, it's due to the poor-man's anti-aliasing and huge-ass pixels on a TV... and the effect can probably be replicated given a specific set of video filters for your computer... however, for the truly lazy video pirate, nothing beats a regular old 4:3 tv.
And how easy would it be to trick someone who browses SN and casually decides to give this linux thing a try? How many people, after compulsively snarfing as many free files as they can get, habitually check the trackers that they use?
While no sane person who knows what they're doing would install an OS without first verifying data integrity, i think that virtually nobody will bother to d/l the sums separately and take that extra step.
Me, i'm just paranoid. I wonder how many others are, too?
It's great and all to be using bittorrent to help spread the bandwidth around, and in all likelihood the distribution is completely benign, and i know SN only provides links... it's just that most people have learned long ago not to trust applications delivered by warez outfits.
I would personally much rather see that torrent being hosted somewhere more official.
Don't be stupid. "Don't Be Evil" doesn't instantly mean "Don't Be Smart". They know what they're capable of, and earning lots of cash is a pretty obvious thing.
With google's ubiquity in almost everyone's daily internet life, the potential for misconduct is staggering. The fact that they haven't abused their position yet makes me proud of the fact that i can afford exactly 1 share of their stock right now.
The original days of video games were full of poor quality games that everyone had the ability to make. Many people now regard this as the great halcyon days of gaming, and look back with fondness and regret.
Personally, i'd rather pay 5$ a piece for 10 mediocre games, then pay 50$ for the latest must-have-super-franchise-sequel-seen-everything-b efore-but-this-time -it's-new-we-promise deal.
Openness and well documented specs will benefit everyone. Just because there will be more lower quality games (not disputing this), doesn't mean that you won't still get to blow your wad on Super Mario 8 and Sonic 12 Adventure Battle or whatever it is.
For complete Outlook mimickry, I prefer evolution to kmail. Kmail still has too many innovations and efficient ways of doing things to truly compete with Outlook.
and K3B still has bugs, including asking me everytime i start it to set the writer speed, as well as not correctly handling DAO/SAO burning unless i explicity modify the command parameters.
Also, OpenOffice appears to have fallen into the uncanny valley... enough like MSOffice to make you think that it is, but different in several jarring ways that make it irksome.
Personally, i think 299 is a decent price, but i wouldn't be happy with the Duron. Also, I think it's a bad idea to market this as a mirror alternative to a Windows PC. Linux and Windows are fundamentally different, and not just different wrappings for the same basic experience. To imply that they are will make some very unhappy consumers.
https by default guarantees nothing... ie, the webserver uses crappy encryption, or your web browser negotiates to a severely low-grade 40bit encryption by default (ran into this problem developing a 'secure' site, and testing it out with IE). Or what if you're using https, but the intercepting party has obtained a copy of the ssl key?
Using https by default is more secure against casual observers, but just tends to give you a fals sense of security for everything.
Basically, it works like this... they make it up. Kindof. In the mitnick case, they took the product he stole (software), deemed it now unusuable because it was leaked, and said 'we could have sold 80$million to users... now we can't.'
Also, man hours get factored in, sometimes two or three times over, including the man hours that were used to create the product in the first place, as well as to re-create the product again.
It's all very stupid, and nobody believes a word of it except the courts.
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2600 has dumbed itself down over the years; they now publish useless howto hacks for kiddies and bored teenagers. Emmanuel also seems to concern himself more with activism now, than actually doing anything useful.
Phrack always had something sophisticated, unusual, or actually creative. The true hacker spirit, that didn't care that mass media confused 'hacker' with 'cracker', and that didn't wear the term 'hacker' like a merit badge or fashion statement, was very evident in their issues. They published for themselves, and if anyone got anything useful out of, that's great too.
While the true spirit never dies, it's sad to see one of the last vestiges of the old school go under. (btw, they've had 'last issues' before. I'd be surprised if they went away forever.)
Holy run-on sentence, Batman!
"The method allows a DNA sample to be assigned to a fairly specific location, with a relatively high confidence that the assignment is correct. The study indicated that 50 percent of the samples tested were accurately located within 300 miles and 80 percent were accurate to within less than 600 miles."
... a 300 mile radius is (approx) 283,000 square miles. and 50% doesn't seem like it would be regarded by anyone as 'relatively high' ... relative to the other 50%, as it were.
... this is a fight that will be fought using legislature. Which is much less glamorous.
I don't know
I caught an interview with one of these guys on the BBC last night, and they didn't manage to explain exactly how this would help. The article makes it clearer, in that it seems to be useful for determining in which areas laws should be tightened or relaxed.
But it should be made clear that there won't be truck loads of mobile biologists roaming the savannah and forests looking for poachers
I had not realized anything was missing from my window manager experience. But now that I see the screenshots for myself, I cannot wait for the oppurtunity to turn the new eyecandy off in the next release of KDE or Gnome.
*cough* Sorry.
Really great work, guys. I'm pround to see progress. But aside from these uses, what good will it do?
And what's the implication of 'true' transparency? What kind of fake transparency have we all been using up until now?
Yes ... apparently, someone right now is doing a psychedelic remix of some guy reading an eggplant recipe.
I can see how this will be useful for the hurricane.
I got some of these, too. I did some investigating of the attacking computers
In other words, most likely easily compromised machines which are probably not under their owners' control.
That theory is usually true, but more often than not it doesn't hold water
it can't be something and it's polar opposite at the same time.
There is a mathematical theorem about this. Fundamentally, A != -A (unless A=0)
I can't be usually alive, but more often than not dead.
As for the general canard-iness, you didn't address your parent or the quote you quoted: specifically, it was of the form A => B (a implies b). No one's disputing the fact that choice exists, the point is that choice => lowered prices.
Very poor effort, please see me after class.
Yay, I'm a grammar whore!
Once that's settled, the best format will end up prevailing.
... Nuclear vs. Coal power ... Metric vs. Imperial ... Republican vs. Democrat (you get the idea by now)
I don't even know where to begin with explaining why this is wrong, but i'll give you three categories, and leave it as an excercise to the reader to investigate further: VCRs, Computer Graphics, and Automobiles.
Oh hell, i'll give you more examples: AC vs DC power (including the 50hz vs 60hz dealie)
mplayer is actually what i was referring to ...
.... well, unacceptable. It doesn't matter how many filters i apply, or what scaling factor or anything. It will still look like crap.
... DVDs look much better (colour-matching aside) in mplayer than on my circa 1980 TV.
playing a 352x240 stream encoded at some rediculously low bitrate on my 1600x1200 21" screen is
Now, if i go to the bother of making a VCD, and popping it into my DVD player, and watching it on an even bigger screen (~30", i believe), it looks fine.
On the other hand
There's simply not enough data in a low-bandwidth stream to make it bearable on a PC. Conversely, there's just too much data in a high-bandwidth stream to get all of it displayed properly on a analogue TV.
(and please, don't anyone start on the craptacularness of DVDs on plasma screens)
"Maybe it's because we're spoiled with the high resolution of computer monitors, but I can barely stand to watch normal TV"
... true, it's due to the poor-man's anti-aliasing and huge-ass pixels on a TV ... and the effect can probably be replicated given a specific set of video filters for your computer ... however, for the truly lazy video pirate, nothing beats a regular old 4:3 tv.
Normal TVs are better at displaying low-bandwidth video streams (think VCDs)
How exactly do you play a fish?
And for goodness' sake, what the hell are slashdot personals? If've been wondering for a long time, everytime you post.
And how easy would it be to trick someone who browses SN and casually decides to give this linux thing a try? How many people, after compulsively snarfing as many free files as they can get, habitually check the trackers that they use?
Good point. You needn't have posted anonymously.
While no sane person who knows what they're doing would install an OS without first verifying data integrity, i think that virtually nobody will bother to d/l the sums separately and take that extra step.
Me, i'm just paranoid. I wonder how many others are, too?
It's great and all to be using bittorrent to help spread the bandwidth around, and in all likelihood the distribution is completely benign, and i know SN only provides links ... it's just that most people have learned long ago not to trust applications delivered by warez outfits.
I would personally much rather see that torrent being hosted somewhere more official.
Stop trying to astroturf. You're not fooling anybody.
Your logic is neither interesting, nor particularly well-informed.
Don't be stupid. "Don't Be Evil" doesn't instantly mean "Don't Be Smart". They know what they're capable of, and earning lots of cash is a pretty obvious thing.
With google's ubiquity in almost everyone's daily internet life, the potential for misconduct is staggering. The fact that they haven't abused their position yet makes me proud of the fact that i can afford exactly 1 share of their stock right now.
If your case design is static, you could just cut them off.
How did they calculate that last one? Did they line up a bunch of volunteers, and play increasingly louder sounds until their heads exploded?
True.
If Sony is hurt in this way, it will stifle their ability to innovate and push new hardware and software concepts.
Software titles aside, I really like the parallelism and graphics system of the PS2. I can't wait to get my hands on the PS3.
The original days of video games were full of poor quality games that everyone had the ability to make. Many people now regard this as the great halcyon days of gaming, and look back with fondness and regret.
b efore-but-this-time -it's-new-we-promise deal.
Personally, i'd rather pay 5$ a piece for 10 mediocre games, then pay 50$ for the latest must-have-super-franchise-sequel-seen-everything-
Openness and well documented specs will benefit everyone. Just because there will be more lower quality games (not disputing this), doesn't mean that you won't still get to blow your wad on Super Mario 8 and Sonic 12 Adventure Battle or whatever it is.
Your reply had absolutely nothing to do with your parent post.
As such, it is neither serious, nor a reply.
For complete Outlook mimickry, I prefer evolution to kmail. Kmail still has too many innovations and efficient ways of doing things to truly compete with Outlook.
... enough like MSOffice to make you think that it is, but different in several jarring ways that make it irksome.
and K3B still has bugs, including asking me everytime i start it to set the writer speed, as well as not correctly handling DAO/SAO burning unless i explicity modify the command parameters.
Also, OpenOffice appears to have fallen into the uncanny valley
Personally, i think 299 is a decent price, but i wouldn't be happy with the Duron. Also, I think it's a bad idea to market this as a mirror alternative to a Windows PC. Linux and Windows are fundamentally different, and not just different wrappings for the same basic experience. To imply that they are will make some very unhappy consumers.
https by default guarantees nothing
Using https by default is more secure against casual observers, but just tends to give you a fals sense of security for everything.
No, that's the point of firefox.
Mozilla has a ton of features, especially when you install the entire suite of applications (chat, e-mail, etc).
Basically, it works like this
Also, man hours get factored in, sometimes two or three times over, including the man hours that were used to create the product in the first place, as well as to re-create the product again.
It's all very stupid, and nobody believes a word of it except the courts.
Cause they're dumb.
(shrug)