I was just thinking that while scrollin' through these messages. In all my years of computing (~15 or so), i've only thrown away one computer (an apple IIC!!), and i regret that i don't have it now. I keep all my old equipment, from monitors to [234]86s to 1mb memory sticks.
Worse comes to worse, there's always some little elementary school lab or small business that could use a cheap firewall.
It may be ignorance on my part, but if you can only ban site-by-site, then how do you ban all the other services out there, such as gnutella, openNap, etc, that come from an infinite number of sites?
Banning websites (-websites-, not napster's service ports) is totally and utterly stupid. I can't think of any reason for it, OTHER than attempting to hide information and prevent students from becoming aware and educated about the program.
It's one thing to have a policy banning the -use- of napster, it's a whole other thing to (effectively) ban dissemination of information about it. In fact, i'd even go so far as to say that your school is probably breaking some of its own laws, if not actual U.S. laws; take a look at their by-rules and such, see what you can find.
But what if peer review -doesn't- turn up any problems, yet they still exist (and the NSA knows this, and uses it for it's own benefit)? Call me paranoid, but I don't like trusting an algorithm because my government tells me it's secure. And I also don't trust peer review enough to believe that if there's a problem, it will be found.
Fact of the matter is, there's always gonna be someone willing to pay top dollar either because
1) they truly need the MOST power ASAP.
or
2) they hardware junkies and they have to have the fastest, coolest CPU, ASAP.
granted, the combination of the above and the actual $$ to buy the CPU's may be rare, but nevertheless, it has to exist...otherwise, intel and amd simply wouldn't release their processors at such high prices. assuming, of course, that they do have market analysts n such...which maybe a stretch, but i digress.
Apparently, you at least looked at it, or you wouldn't have preached what was in it.
I think the lure of this article is the fact that it's comparing windows and linux graphics. It's important because, unfortunately (as you said), many awesome games are windows only. And articles like this show the capabilities of games/graphics under linux, as well as the community interest in having those capabilities...
*shrug*, not trying to convince you you're wrong, just another viewpoint...
Exploits are needed because they are a way of describing the security hole in a manner that directly shows exactly what information damage and/or theft can occur. They also often point to ways that a specific security hole can be avoided or closed up before the company in question releases a patch.
The -problem- with exploits is that they are often too narrow minded. They may take advantage of a hole that is much bigger than the exploit itself indicates...leading to people thinking that if they stop the particular exploit, the hole itself is fixed.
all of which are handled by actionListeners (forgive me if my terminology is off, i haven't coded java in a year or so)...so, you keep some sort of vector type thing that holds a list of actions the user has performed. whenever one of the above events occurs, all you need to do is create an entry with the coordinates/key/whatever, and you have your record.
the only thing you might wanna do is rather than recording a button press as simply "MOUSE_RIGHT_DOWN at 230,230", actually indicating a button directly would speed it up a bit...although it'd make for slightly harder parsing in playback.
dunno, doesn't seem like too huge a thing to me, although i can't say much for how efficient it'd be...
Now THAT would be some cool stuff. although from what others are saying, it'd be pretty impossible cuz titanium is so hard to work with...but still, imagine being able to wrap yerself up in full-body titanium armor before going to a disco party?
Last monday Transmeta announced the initial terms for its IPO, including an offering of 13 million common shares from $11-$13...
one thing i didn't realize about transmeta that's sort of interesting, is that the money they've made (although they've always posted losses) over the years, until Crusoe, has been from licensing fees...but from what??
(everyone deserves to do a bit of whorin' now n then, right?)
wow, really? I'm still in school, but of the 10+ or so jobs I've had, (about half of which would be considered "professional"), most have done background checks. This includes places like IBM, William Mercer, n other big companies...
basically, they don't screw around. they have the right to watch their own asses, i believe...as to whether it's an invasion of one's privacy, especially with a third party involved...well, i'd have to say hell yea, it is. i think it's probably the lesser of several possible evils, however...for instance, i think we'd be much worse off if background checks weren't allowed and psychotic shmucks were screwing companies over left and right (well, moreso than they do now)...because then people would begin to get blackmailed from jobs on account of stuff as irrelevant as, say, how dumb their/. posts are.
hiring companies need something to work off of...take what they have away, and they'll just find something else.
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And then they'd be likely to just contact the service provider and have them shutdown the website...
no, no, no. that's what electric eel farms are for.
I was just thinking that while scrollin' through these messages. In all my years of computing (~15 or so), i've only thrown away one computer (an apple IIC!!), and i regret that i don't have it now. I keep all my old equipment, from monitors to [234]86s to 1mb memory sticks.
Worse comes to worse, there's always some little elementary school lab or small business that could use a cheap firewall.
now -that's- recycling.
I'm just really curious about how they go about testing these things...
:P)
and how long it'll be before they have live webcasts of said testing =)
(yes, i'm single
It may be ignorance on my part, but if you can only ban site-by-site, then how do you ban all the other services out there, such as gnutella, openNap, etc, that come from an infinite number of sites?
Banning websites (-websites-, not napster's service ports) is totally and utterly stupid. I can't think of any reason for it, OTHER than attempting to hide information and prevent students from becoming aware and educated about the program.
It's one thing to have a policy banning the -use- of napster, it's a whole other thing to (effectively) ban dissemination of information about it. In fact, i'd even go so far as to say that your school is probably breaking some of its own laws, if not actual U.S. laws; take a look at their by-rules and such, see what you can find.
But what if peer review -doesn't- turn up any problems, yet they still exist (and the NSA knows this, and uses it for it's own benefit)? Call me paranoid, but I don't like trusting an algorithm because my government tells me it's secure. And I also don't trust peer review enough to believe that if there's a problem, it will be found.
They're not moving at 250miles/sec...they're moving at -5-miles/second, and they were 250 miles above Kazakhstan.
It just so happens that my Operating Systems class is codin' a virtual machine and OS that has a card reader, so send 'em on over! ;)
Fact of the matter is, there's always gonna be someone willing to pay top dollar either because
1) they truly need the MOST power ASAP.
or
2) they hardware junkies and they have to have the fastest, coolest CPU, ASAP.
granted, the combination of the above and the actual $$ to buy the CPU's may be rare, but nevertheless, it has to exist...otherwise, intel and amd simply wouldn't release their processors at such high prices. assuming, of course, that they do have market analysts n such...which maybe a stretch, but i digress.
yea.
Well, lesee here.
-I- read the article.
Apparently, you at least looked at it, or you wouldn't have preached what was in it.
I think the lure of this article is the fact that it's comparing windows and linux graphics. It's important because, unfortunately (as you said), many awesome games are windows only. And articles like this show the capabilities of games/graphics under linux, as well as the community interest in having those capabilities...
*shrug*, not trying to convince you you're wrong, just another viewpoint...
Exploits are needed because they are a way of describing the security hole in a manner that directly shows exactly what information damage and/or theft can occur. They also often point to ways that a specific security hole can be avoided or closed up before the company in question releases a patch.
The -problem- with exploits is that they are often too narrow minded. They may take advantage of a hole that is much bigger than the exploit itself indicates...leading to people thinking that if they stop the particular exploit, the hole itself is fixed.
The way I see it, there are only so many ways a user can give input to a java program (most java programs, at least)...
1. keyboard presses
2. mouse moving
3. mouse clicking
all of which are handled by actionListeners (forgive me if my terminology is off, i haven't coded java in a year or so)...so, you keep some sort of vector type thing that holds a list of actions the user has performed. whenever one of the above events occurs, all you need to do is create an entry with the coordinates/key/whatever, and you have your record.
the only thing you might wanna do is rather than recording a button press as simply "MOUSE_RIGHT_DOWN at 230,230", actually indicating a button directly would speed it up a bit...although it'd make for slightly harder parsing in playback.
dunno, doesn't seem like too huge a thing to me, although i can't say much for how efficient it'd be...
Now THAT would be some cool stuff. although from what others are saying, it'd be pretty impossible cuz titanium is so hard to work with...but still, imagine being able to wrap yerself up in full-body titanium armor before going to a disco party?
shaft ain't got nuttin' on wolverine.
I bet a hell of a lot more people would visit the monument if they had just nailed a bunch of flattened-out budweiser cans to the top of the thing.
Last monday Transmeta announced the initial terms for its IPO, including an offering of 13 million common shares from $11-$13...
one thing i didn't realize about transmeta that's sort of interesting, is that the money they've made (although they've always posted losses) over the years, until Crusoe, has been from licensing fees...but from what??
(everyone deserves to do a bit of whorin' now n then, right?)
wow, really? I'm still in school, but of the 10+ or so jobs I've had, (about half of which would be considered "professional"), most have done background checks. This includes places like IBM, William Mercer, n other big companies...
/. posts are.
basically, they don't screw around. they have the right to watch their own asses, i believe...as to whether it's an invasion of one's privacy, especially with a third party involved...well, i'd have to say hell yea, it is. i think it's probably the lesser of several possible evils, however...for instance, i think we'd be much worse off if background checks weren't allowed and psychotic shmucks were screwing companies over left and right (well, moreso than they do now)...because then people would begin to get blackmailed from jobs on account of stuff as irrelevant as, say, how dumb their
hiring companies need something to work off of...take what they have away, and they'll just find something else.