couldn't you just launch 144 attacks simultaneously, knowing that at least 1 would work on each server?
Kind of like the old days... you'd go into an irc channel, and just let the bots fly without doing any verification, because you knew at least one bot would work on most of the people.
This sort of thing requires a lot of juice... decoding the TV signal, reencoding it, then serving gobs of data out the network port. And of course it all scales with resolution, frame-rate, bit-rate, and number of viewers on the remote end.
However, there are things that mitigate that... hardware decoding/encoding, multicast, and having a big-honking-fast processor helps...
I would like to see this done well... i for one would use it, too.
And what's the security on your regular plastic credit card? That there's a non-verifiable signature on it that most merchants never check? That sometimes, for an online sale, the merchant asks you to turn over the card and input that 3-4 number code on the back?
If anybody ever gets physical access to your stuff, it's pretty much always game-over. Doesn't matter if it's your wallet, cc-watch, speedpass, or whatever you use.
Coatchecking... that's basically unreasonable searching. Unless there is reasonable doubt defined by the college Judicial code or a warrant, no one should have access to your stuff. And how do you even determine what laptop has integrated wireless? Ask politely, and expect the subject to answer truthfully so you can take away their machine? What if someone removes the logos and stickers, how do you tell then?
Also, there's an old saying... if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Or something like that. By taking away suspect equipment, you'll only be rewarding those who are better at sneaking around.
I do agree, however, that using a computer lab so that everyone is on equal footing is probably the best idea.
Can anyone think of any other large, donation based projects that publish their revenues?
Also, Jonathan Rosenberg of Goats seems to have the whole 'pay me, pretty please' thing down pretty well. Just perusing his site should be a 101 course in internet capitalism.
It might help to describe what kind of project you're working on, to get a better sense of what sorts of commercial options would be most appropriate.
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Looks like you get the Gran Tourismo demo with the Matrix, too. Unfortunately, they appear too clever to send me two copies.
I find it humourous that they have more copies of the game than of certain parts of the literature brochure (which i'm actually interested in... however, it shouldn't surprise me as the local toyota dealership told me that there's at least a 4 month waiting list for the prius in this area)
I wasn't trolling, but it probably came around as a bit arrogant... in general, party-line comments are best responded to in like. I was trying to be tongue-in-cheek, but i guess it didn't work well.
That's funny... I remember DeCSS. My friend had the T-shirt. I read and loved the haiku.
I also remember how thousands of hackers won out in the end, and have libdvdcss and libdvdread installed on their systems. And remember how DVD-Jon was aquitted? Twice? That was sweet.
It's too bad that the DMCA brought us all down in the end. Every day i lament the fact that I can't download pirated movies off the internet before they're released in the theatre, and that I also can't watch dvd's on my computer.
My Comcast cablebox (motoral model unknown, somewhere from c.1992) is a POS. I called Comcast for tech support because my volume was too low... they said I couldn't set it on the cable box. I foolishly took their word for it.
Fast forward some months... I bought a nice universal remote to consolodate my growing stockpile... as I was entering in trial numbers for motoral boxes, I got to an entry that kinda worked... some of the buttons were screwed up, and I couldn't get to the menu. However, the up/down cursor keys magically brought up a volume menu!
This one feature was useful enough for me to keep two different codes for my one cable box on one remote.
I'm still searching for the CC button, like aztec gold.
Then go back and use your 10 year old version of Office. See how many people kick your ass by the end of the week.
It's called the cost of doing business. Your business capital must be routinely updated. There comes a point at which the amount of work you can do with the new equipment will generate more money than it cost to upgrade.
I agree that some people take it too far (new car every two years, new MSOffice every 18 months, or whatever they're up to now), but at the same time, not upgrading when appropriate makes you obsolete and a liability.
That's not really a response to what he asked, is it?
He already knows it's not professional.
At any rate, a really fun thing to do is rename/reroute all the printers. It's great fun to see someone try to print out their document five times with no response, then have a coworker track them down hours later with a huge stack of duplicates.
If you're phone system is programmable, (and your phones have LCD displays) you can setup specific messages when specific extensions ring.
Remap keyboards, and then log out of the machine. This works great if the user of that specific workstation's name is automatically filled in (or in the case of XP, you only have to click on it).
Ultimately, I wish you could do something like rewrite the local routing tables, or 'corrupt' the backups, or infect the network with a benign virus, then miraculously come to the rescue, thus proving your worth to the company... but that would just be wrong.
Perhaps the best part of the Carmen Sandiego series was the literature they included. My copy of "Where In Time..." shipped with a condensed desktop encyclopedia. To this date, that encyclopedia still gets used, whereas the game itself probably disintegrated long ago.
And yes, i was a real dork as a child, and probably spent more time reading the encyclopedia than actually playing the game.
Jason vs. Freddy served to fill a huge void in the mythos of their universe. It had been building for awhile (subtle hints here and there, not so subtle hints elsewhere)... FvJ serves as a vital informational source.
As for hypersonic albino rasta spirits.... they were ghosts, and even ghosts have to have hairdos. What makes one choice worse than any other? And guns. Ghosts need guns, of course. That should go without saying.
Now, let me take my tongue out of my cheek... basically, any director or writer can justify the choices they make to themselves. There's always a reason, pretty much.
And the ultimate reason: Ep1 grossed 431 million, and Ep2 grossed 310 million. They're both on the top100 list of all time best grossing movies. And that's the justification... "we must be doing something right... full steam ahead!"
And then there's the ultimate playground retort: If you don't like it, go make your own movie, and don't see the one you're complaining about. (no, i don't endorse that viewpoint, but that's the way it works sometimes.)
I recall my star wars nut friend telling me back maybe 10-12 years ago about the lava thing. It's definitely been around for awhile, and I think part of Lucas' original design? (The whole 'I've got everything mapped out in my head, seriously I do' type of thing)
It's called suspension of disbelief... basically, you set up a world with rules and basic premises, then you work your story within those rules.
When you start contradicting yourself, and making up random stuff that makes no sense outside of the preestablished framework, that's when your readers or viewers can start bitching.
It's not like people going around saying Bram Stoker is such a fucking idiot because there's no such thing as vampires.
find, grep, whereis, locate... take your pick, and remember, man pages are your friends.
The posted article was seriously light on details... it mentioned that Puffin exists.... but not how it does anything.
The article did, however, mention the possibility that google might try to inject adverts into local computer search results (somewhere down in the bottom of the NYT page). If that's the case (and i'd like to think they wouldn't have the balls to do that), i hope they choke.
Hey, look at it from the complete upside-down and inside-out side...
Do you think it's fair to not compensate artists for their work?... versus...
Do you think it's fair for hack artists to flood the market with poor products, repetitive products, derivative products, just so that they can make a buck, and in the process force out those who do it for art's sake?
There are formulas to predict how monetarily successful a song will be, and that junk is churned out. Whereas the person who toils in oblivion, doing something truly unique and innovative, may never get heard or compensated.
In the early days of rock&roll, it was common practice to take the work of a black musician, have a white artist cover it, so that it would sell more copies to a captive audience. Some artists died poor and forgotten, only achieving fame years afterwards (if at all), while those who copied their work receieved their money from the corporations in control of the music distribution at the time. (this is a somewhat oversimplified explanation, and yes there were artists who did make it big in their own rights, but don't start saying that this shit didn't happen and still doesn't happen)
Is that fair? Is it really right to tell a consumer what they want, as long as somebody gets paid?
If enough people start clamouring for individual orange sections, there will be a vendor who appears to fill that need. Supply&Demand works two ways.
Now, excuse me while I got get the devil's advocate...
Look. If people don't want to pay, they won't. If enough people want a different distribution means, it will appear. If people don't want to compensate artists, artists will stop making their product available for consumer consumption. It is blatantly obvious that there is a big enough group of people who don't want to pay, won't pay, and will use the means available to achieve what they want. There comes a certain point where people don't care anymore, the laws won't be able to keep up with them (can't sue everyone), and the market will be forced to change.
I'm not saying that's a good thing, mind you. Historical analogies: Prohibition in the United States, the illegal drug market, propogation of war... all in some degree or some way or at some time illegal, but enough people want it, and it was supplied.
Now, someone please jump in and provide some positive examples.
Government control of industry and commerce is the first step towards fascism.... you're not a fascist, are you?
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couldn't you just launch 144 attacks simultaneously, knowing that at least 1 would work on each server?
Kind of like the old days
Some people aren't afraid to make a crappy joke using their own name, just as some are not afraid to run it into the ground.
Not Nethack.
This sort of thing requires a lot of juice
However, there are things that mitigate that
I would like to see this done well
And what's the security on your regular plastic credit card? That there's a non-verifiable signature on it that most merchants never check? That sometimes, for an online sale, the merchant asks you to turn over the card and input that 3-4 number code on the back?
If anybody ever gets physical access to your stuff, it's pretty much always game-over. Doesn't matter if it's your wallet, cc-watch, speedpass, or whatever you use.
Schizophrenic, definiton #2: Of, relating to, or characterized by the coexistence of disparate or antagonistic elements.
The post to which you replied used the word correctly, and did not make a reference to multiple personality disorder at all.
While i understand that the terms are often misapplied, don't go out looking to start fights, it won't help your cause.
Coatchecking
Also, there's an old saying
I do agree, however, that using a computer lab so that everyone is on equal footing is probably the best idea.
For an example of the donation button, check out:
The Donation Box at E2
Can anyone think of any other large, donation based projects that publish their revenues?
Also, Jonathan Rosenberg of Goats seems to have the whole 'pay me, pretty please' thing down pretty well. Just perusing his site should be a 101 course in internet capitalism.
It might help to describe what kind of project you're working on, to get a better sense of what sorts of commercial options would be most appropriate.
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Looks like you get the Gran Tourismo demo with the Matrix, too. Unfortunately, they appear too clever to send me two copies.
I find it humourous that they have more copies of the game than of certain parts of the literature brochure (which i'm actually interested in
I wasn't trolling, but it probably came around as a bit arrogant ... in general, party-line comments are best responded to in like. I was trying to be tongue-in-cheek, but i guess it didn't work well.
...
/wink
I guess what I meant to say was
Fair use, good. Fire, bad.
That's funny ... I remember DeCSS. My friend had the T-shirt. I read and loved the haiku.
I also remember how thousands of hackers won out in the end, and have libdvdcss and libdvdread installed on their systems. And remember how DVD-Jon was aquitted? Twice? That was sweet.
It's too bad that the DMCA brought us all down in the end. Every day i lament the fact that I can't download pirated movies off the internet before they're released in the theatre, and that I also can't watch dvd's on my computer.
It really sucks.
Incidentally, I have no idea how I identically misspelled 'motorola' twice in the same post ... krunk.
It's a poor musician who blames his talent on his instrument ... or something like that.
But you're a fool if you buy any equipment and put implicit trust in it, even if it came pristine from the manufacturer.
When you buy something you have to depend on, you test it out. Many times. Under all possible conditions that you may need it for.
You only need your equipment to fail once in a clutch situation to learn this lesson.
Flip side: apply the hack, and test out your equipment. If it works, that's fabulous. If it doesn't, you're wiser than most other people, either way.
My Comcast cablebox (motoral model unknown, somewhere from c.1992) is a POS. I called Comcast for tech support because my volume was too low
Fast forward some months
This one feature was useful enough for me to keep two different codes for my one cable box on one remote.
I'm still searching for the CC button, like aztec gold.
Then go back and use your 10 year old version of Office. See how many people kick your ass by the end of the week.
It's called the cost of doing business. Your business capital must be routinely updated. There comes a point at which the amount of work you can do with the new equipment will generate more money than it cost to upgrade.
I agree that some people take it too far (new car every two years, new MSOffice every 18 months, or whatever they're up to now), but at the same time, not upgrading when appropriate makes you obsolete and a liability.
That's not really a response to what he asked, is it?
... but that would just be wrong.
He already knows it's not professional.
At any rate, a really fun thing to do is rename/reroute all the printers. It's great fun to see someone try to print out their document five times with no response, then have a coworker track them down hours later with a huge stack of duplicates.
If you're phone system is programmable, (and your phones have LCD displays) you can setup specific messages when specific extensions ring.
Remap keyboards, and then log out of the machine. This works great if the user of that specific workstation's name is automatically filled in (or in the case of XP, you only have to click on it).
Ultimately, I wish you could do something like rewrite the local routing tables, or 'corrupt' the backups, or infect the network with a benign virus, then miraculously come to the rescue, thus proving your worth to the company
Good luck, mate.
Perhaps the best part of the Carmen Sandiego series was the literature they included. My copy of "Where In Time ..." shipped with a condensed desktop encyclopedia. To this date, that encyclopedia still gets used, whereas the game itself probably disintegrated long ago.
And yes, i was a real dork as a child, and probably spent more time reading the encyclopedia than actually playing the game.
Jason vs. Freddy served to fill a huge void in the mythos of their universe. It had been building for awhile (subtle hints here and there, not so subtle hints elsewhere) ... FvJ serves as a vital informational source.
.... they were ghosts, and even ghosts have to have hairdos. What makes one choice worse than any other? And guns. Ghosts need guns, of course. That should go without saying.
... basically, any director or writer can justify the choices they make to themselves. There's always a reason, pretty much.
... "we must be doing something right ... full steam ahead!"
As for hypersonic albino rasta spirits
Now, let me take my tongue out of my cheek
And the ultimate reason: Ep1 grossed 431 million, and Ep2 grossed 310 million. They're both on the top100 list of all time best grossing movies. And that's the justification
And then there's the ultimate playground retort: If you don't like it, go make your own movie, and don't see the one you're complaining about. (no, i don't endorse that viewpoint, but that's the way it works sometimes.)
I recall my star wars nut friend telling me back maybe 10-12 years ago about the lava thing. It's definitely been around for awhile, and I think part of Lucas' original design? (The whole 'I've got everything mapped out in my head, seriously I do' type of thing)
It's called suspension of disbelief
When you start contradicting yourself, and making up random stuff that makes no sense outside of the preestablished framework, that's when your readers or viewers can start bitching.
It's not like people going around saying Bram Stoker is such a fucking idiot because there's no such thing as vampires.
We have lots of utilities already.
... take your pick, and remember, man pages are your friends.
... it mentioned that Puffin exists .... but not how it does anything.
find, grep, whereis, locate
The posted article was seriously light on details
The article did, however, mention the possibility that google might try to inject adverts into local computer search results (somewhere down in the bottom of the NYT page). If that's the case (and i'd like to think they wouldn't have the balls to do that), i hope they choke.
Hey, look at it from the complete upside-down and inside-out side ...
... versus ...
Do you think it's fair to not compensate artists for their work?
Do you think it's fair for hack artists to flood the market with poor products, repetitive products, derivative products, just so that they can make a buck, and in the process force out those who do it for art's sake?
There are formulas to predict how monetarily successful a song will be, and that junk is churned out. Whereas the person who toils in oblivion, doing something truly unique and innovative, may never get heard or compensated.
In the early days of rock&roll, it was common practice to take the work of a black musician, have a white artist cover it, so that it would sell more copies to a captive audience. Some artists died poor and forgotten, only achieving fame years afterwards (if at all), while those who copied their work receieved their money from the corporations in control of the music distribution at the time. (this is a somewhat oversimplified explanation, and yes there were artists who did make it big in their own rights, but don't start saying that this shit didn't happen and still doesn't happen)
Is that fair? Is it really right to tell a consumer what they want, as long as somebody gets paid?
Doesn't work that way in a Capatalist society.
...
... all in some degree or some way or at some time illegal, but enough people want it, and it was supplied.
.... you're not a fascist, are you?
Except that, sometimes, it does.
If enough people start clamouring for individual orange sections, there will be a vendor who appears to fill that need. Supply&Demand works two ways.
Now, excuse me while I got get the devil's advocate
Look. If people don't want to pay, they won't. If enough people want a different distribution means, it will appear. If people don't want to compensate artists, artists will stop making their product available for consumer consumption. It is blatantly obvious that there is a big enough group of people who don't want to pay, won't pay, and will use the means available to achieve what they want. There comes a certain point where people don't care anymore, the laws won't be able to keep up with them (can't sue everyone), and the market will be forced to change.
I'm not saying that's a good thing, mind you. Historical analogies: Prohibition in the United States, the illegal drug market, propogation of war
Now, someone please jump in and provide some positive examples.
Government control of industry and commerce is the first step towards fascism
--End of Devil's Advocate Transmission--
caveat: i'm not endorsing one view point or another, i'm not personally attacking you are anyone or anyone's intelligence or anyone's pet rock, free exchange of ideas is welcomed, flames will be ignored and taped onto my refrigerator.
I agree with your sentiment, too.
that would be plus or minus in there, since it's the solution to a quadratic equation. 1.618 or -.618.