Amen. You are right on. The problem I think is that these damn CEOs who do this just don't give a shit about their employees. "Oh, it'll save me some money, who the fuck cares about screwing over my employees when someone steals the fingerprint data from my computer. It doesn't affect me."
Plus as an added bonus I bet they could sell/turn over that data to the government for some extra cash for their new vacation home.
Excellent point. However the police do not retain those fingerprints. They have training in taking good fingerprints, so they do it and give the card directly to the parents for them to keep in their files. Then if at a later point in time the kid goes missing or whatever, the parents can release the prints if they want.
At least that's the way it's always worked whenever I've seen these things set up.
Yeah, I went to TJ as well, and I remember we were the only high school that got a.edu domain instead of.k12.va.us. The.edu's were supposed to be reserved for colleges and universities. I remember other schools bitching and trying to take it away. Glad to see they stuck by their guns and were on to hold on to it.
Actually according to the site, they've been working on high performance blits for the LCD screen. Thus they have sped up the refresh rate significantly over the original Archos firmware.
Saw this on the page: "Note to self: Make this page so that ordinary users, who double-click on this page, can't edit this page..."
And uh, I guess he hasn't fixed that yet. Wonder how long before someone decides to delete it all?
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That's not true. The card the parent is talking about is the Matrox G200. When it came out in July of '98 it had a very short reign at the top of the consumer market. I know because that's when I was building a new system. It was soon eclipsed by the TNT from nVidia, but it was a good card nonetheless.
In fact, I also remember being on the developer list for the linux GLX driver, and John Carmack was a major developer in getting accelerated OpenGL working in linux. Because of their efforts the G200 was one of the only consumer cards at the time that ran accelerated OpenGL in linux. (3DFX drivers also existed I believe, but you had to use the 3DFX api, not OpenGL).
You don't only have to worry about physical crowding. Already Geosyncronous orbit is getting filled up because you need a certain minimum space between them to keep the radio signals from overlapping. Imagine millions of satelites, each able to see a huge swath of ground broadcasting at once. It could easily become overcrowded.
I agree all the way. It's one thing that they claim to have invented the blinds inside the window, but to couple that with the ludicrous claim that they are magically getting 50% efficency when even NASA satellites costing many millions of dollars don't even get close to that. Just a load of BS. They are I guess trying to get people to invest so they can swindle them or something.
Incredible claims require incredible proof, and the fact that the "scientist" said he didn't want to get into specifics, but he was sure it would approch 100% efficency should set off alarm bells in anyone's head.
I run cracked versions of video games all the time. Why? Because I've stolen it? No, because I don't want to have to stick the damn CD in the drive everytime I want to play the game. Nothing is more annoying than the stupid "copy protection" that makes you hunt around for the particular game cd and then put it in your machine (heaven forbid you are using the cdrom at the same time to play music or burn a cd!).
Don't you know as an anti-microsoft, andi-riaa zealot, you need to include all kinds of irrelevant slights to those afore mentioned organizations. It doesn't matter if they have nothing to do with the situation at hand.
Why would you be running apache, mysql, etc. on a laptop machine anyway?
I guess maybe for software development purposes...but you can run those apps on just about any machine/OS you want, what's so special about being able to run it on Mac?
Indeed, the same thing is happening with AOL. I've become one of their casualties in this war on spam and I'm sure they don't give a damn.
I run my own mailserver for my personal domain on a cable modem, and have just found out that I can not send any mail to an AOL user because my IP is "dynamic" (although in fact, I've had the exact same IP for 1.5 years). I sent a mail to postmaster@aol.com, but I'm sure it will probably never get read, and if it does, nothing will be done about it because AOL doesn't care about me, a non paying member who is part of the Internet community.
Ultimately they are hurting their own customers at the same time as more and more people take my attitude of "Fuck it, I just won't bother sending mail to AOL customers anymore."
P.S. Before anyone jumps on me and insists I should be using my ISP's smtp server, I say to them that I'd rather run my own. I want control of my mail, and it may just help prevent prying eyes of the untrusted person running the ISP mail servers. Plus I've got it handling my domains anyway, why not use it to dump those huge attachments off the mail client in half a second rather than wait for it to get uploaded though the paltry 20 Kbps uplink.
Sure. I used the CA.pl script to do it. The man page is located at http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/CA.pl.html. Here are the commands I used (make sure to have the openssl binary in your path):
Actually you don't need to do that at all. I just generated my own CA and key using OpenSSL and plugged it into AIM. It gave the standard warning about how it wasn't signed by an official root, but after that one message, it worked perfectly.
My opinion (being a 3D programmer) that the situation is most likely a bug in the 3DMark program itself that then compounds a driver bug in the nVidia drivers. Since the driver itself does not have access to the program's data structures, it would be impossible for the driver to throw away undraw objects before the point where it would normally do it when clipping. Just because these "leet" game playerz at ExtremeTech think they know anything about graphics programming, doesn't mean they actually do.
So Verizon starts installing a bunch of WiFi hotspots that they then sell private access to. In the meantime they are also clogging up spectrum for use by private individuals. I would think this issue would become a tragedy of the commons, in that more and more people are trying to install WiFi hubs, and thus crowding the bandwith and ruining it for everyone. Since the spectrum in question is free to all, people try and profit off of it at the detriment to others.
At what point in time do they have more of a right to make money off of this while I'm trying to set up my own wireless network for personal use?
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Haha, I was just about to say the same thing. Too much coding as of late leads to that kind of mentality I think.
Microsoft already beat you to the punch with Ones and Zeros.
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I think someone invented headlights about a century ago. You might want to look into getting some.
Amen. You are right on. The problem I think is that these damn CEOs who do this just don't give a shit about their employees. "Oh, it'll save me some money, who the fuck cares about screwing over my employees when someone steals the fingerprint data from my computer. It doesn't affect me."
Plus as an added bonus I bet they could sell/turn over that data to the government for some extra cash for their new vacation home.
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Ha, someone must have read your comment and said, "Hey, we need to release a new version for Negatyfus."
Excellent point. However the police do not retain those fingerprints. They have training in taking good fingerprints, so they do it and give the card directly to the parents for them to keep in their files. Then if at a later point in time the kid goes missing or whatever, the parents can release the prints if they want.
At least that's the way it's always worked whenever I've seen these things set up.
Yeah, I went to TJ as well, and I remember we were the only high school that got a .edu domain instead of .k12.va.us. The .edu's were supposed to be reserved for colleges and universities. I remember other schools bitching and trying to take it away. Glad to see they stuck by their guns and were on to hold on to it.
Actually according to the site, they've been working on high performance blits for the LCD screen. Thus they have sped up the refresh rate significantly over the original Archos firmware.
Definately Columbo, I was about to say the same thing!
Saw this on the page: "Note to self: Make this page so that ordinary users, who double-click on this page, can't edit this page..."
And uh, I guess he hasn't fixed that yet. Wonder how long before someone decides to delete it all?
That's not true. The card the parent is talking about is the Matrox G200. When it came out in July of '98 it had a very short reign at the top of the consumer market. I know because that's when I was building a new system. It was soon eclipsed by the TNT from nVidia, but it was a good card nonetheless.
In fact, I also remember being on the developer list for the linux GLX driver, and John Carmack was a major developer in getting accelerated OpenGL working in linux. Because of their efforts the G200 was one of the only consumer cards at the time that ran accelerated OpenGL in linux. (3DFX drivers also existed I believe, but you had to use the 3DFX api, not OpenGL).
What the heck is a "scyscraper"? One would assume someone could at least spell the word "sky" correctly...
When you click on Bruce Campbell's right lens on his sunglasses it gives you the following number: 31 02283 665. What is it supposed to mean?
You don't only have to worry about physical crowding. Already Geosyncronous orbit is getting filled up because you need a certain minimum space between them to keep the radio signals from overlapping. Imagine millions of satelites, each able to see a huge swath of ground broadcasting at once. It could easily become overcrowded.
I propose a name change. How about instead of Justice Department, we call it the Ministry of Love?
I agree all the way. It's one thing that they claim to have invented the blinds inside the window, but to couple that with the ludicrous claim that they are magically getting 50% efficency when even NASA satellites costing many millions of dollars don't even get close to that. Just a load of BS. They are I guess trying to get people to invest so they can swindle them or something.
Incredible claims require incredible proof, and the fact that the "scientist" said he didn't want to get into specifics, but he was sure it would approch 100% efficency should set off alarm bells in anyone's head.
I run cracked versions of video games all the time. Why? Because I've stolen it? No, because I don't want to have to stick the damn CD in the drive everytime I want to play the game. Nothing is more annoying than the stupid "copy protection" that makes you hunt around for the particular game cd and then put it in your machine (heaven forbid you are using the cdrom at the same time to play music or burn a cd!).
Don't you know as an anti-microsoft, andi-riaa zealot, you need to include all kinds of irrelevant slights to those afore mentioned organizations. It doesn't matter if they have nothing to do with the situation at hand.
Why would you be running apache, mysql, etc. on a laptop machine anyway?
I guess maybe for software development purposes...but you can run those apps on just about any machine/OS you want, what's so special about being able to run it on Mac?
Indeed, the same thing is happening with AOL. I've become one of their casualties in this war on spam and I'm sure they don't give a damn.
I run my own mailserver for my personal domain on a cable modem, and have just found out that I can not send any mail to an AOL user because my IP is "dynamic" (although in fact, I've had the exact same IP for 1.5 years). I sent a mail to postmaster@aol.com, but I'm sure it will probably never get read, and if it does, nothing will be done about it because AOL doesn't care about me, a non paying member who is part of the Internet community.
Ultimately they are hurting their own customers at the same time as more and more people take my attitude of "Fuck it, I just won't bother sending mail to AOL customers anymore."
P.S. Before anyone jumps on me and insists I should be using my ISP's smtp server, I say to them that I'd rather run my own. I want control of my mail, and it may just help prevent prying eyes of the untrusted person running the ISP mail servers. Plus I've got it handling my domains anyway, why not use it to dump those huge attachments off the mail client in half a second rather than wait for it to get uploaded though the paltry 20 Kbps uplink.
Heh, I get Fox 5 in DC as well, and the one I always liked was:
BABY DIAPERS IN A CREEK NEAR YOU!!!!!!
Sure. I used the CA.pl script to do it. The man page is located at http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/CA.pl.html. Here are the commands I used (make sure to have the openssl binary in your path):
/usr/local/ssl/misc/CA.pl -newca
/usr/local/ssl/misc/CA.pl -newreq
/usr/local/ssl/misc/CA.pl -signreq
/usr/local/ssl/misc/CA.pl -pkcs12
.p12 certificate, which you can then import into AIM.
Just follow the prompts and it should generate a
Hope this helps.
Actually you don't need to do that at all. I just generated my own CA and key using OpenSSL and plugged it into AIM. It gave the standard warning about how it wasn't signed by an official root, but after that one message, it worked perfectly.
My opinion (being a 3D programmer) that the situation is most likely a bug in the 3DMark program itself that then compounds a driver bug in the nVidia drivers. Since the driver itself does not have access to the program's data structures, it would be impossible for the driver to throw away undraw objects before the point where it would normally do it when clipping. Just because these "leet" game playerz at ExtremeTech think they know anything about graphics programming, doesn't mean they actually do.
So Verizon starts installing a bunch of WiFi hotspots that they then sell private access to. In the meantime they are also clogging up spectrum for use by private individuals. I would think this issue would become a tragedy of the commons, in that more and more people are trying to install WiFi hubs, and thus crowding the bandwith and ruining it for everyone. Since the spectrum in question is free to all, people try and profit off of it at the detriment to others.
At what point in time do they have more of a right to make money off of this while I'm trying to set up my own wireless network for personal use?