Embedding data signals in white noise is the easy part. It's getting them out that they haven't figured out yet.
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Please don't/. the named.root files.
Oh get serious.
1) Slashdot is not that big. I think the Internet's root servers just might be able to handle a bigger load than you think.
2) There are 12 (?) other root servers out there to get your root hints from. If any sysadmins out there give up on downloading the root hints because one freakin' server doesn't respond - well, they've got bigger problems.
Almost every distribution is running Mozilla 1.0.1 or 1.1 by now.
Unfortunately, Debian is not one of them. Mozilla 1.0.0 is still the official version in both 'stable' and 'testing'.
I love Debian's 'apt-get' as much as the next guy. But they are sooooo slow to get new shit in the tree that it's not even funny. Hell, you've even got to use unofficial sources if you want to run KDE 3.
I know Debian's a volunteer distro, and I know that "freedom" and stability are their number one priorities. But come on guys, sometimes the dogmatism has to take a back seat to practicality.
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Hmmm, so one mildly out of place comment by a proven Linux veteran would cause you to disregard his advice forever? Yeah - he needs to grow up.
and after seeing the results of the last election, I have serious doubts about Americas system of checks and balances.
Oh please. The Florida election debacle was more hilarious than it was anything else. One candidate lost votes because his supporters were too stupid to figure out the ballot. In typcial political fashion his party decided that spurious litigation was the answer. It wasn't.
Furthermore, even if the last presidential election results weren't fair, your complaint is that elections can be "hijacked" when, and only when, the results are tied within %1. Whoa! The pillars of democracy are fallin' down.
I don't propose that our political system is flawless (it isn't); but it's stable, it's fair, and most importantly, it's adaptable. Can you point me to a better one?
Even if it passes, it won't fly because a state can't legalize something that is federally outlawed.
No, it means it won't be a state crime, which means the local and state police won't enforce it. It would then be up to the federal law enforcement agencies to arrest people for possession of marijuana.
I think the FBI, ATF, etc. has bigger fish to fry than busting high school kids for smoking weed in their parents' basement.
Of course what would probably happen is the Feds would threaten to pull the plug on the millions of dollars they give the state in the form of various grants.
[Millions of computer users] don't understand the concept of software licensing, and most would probably (Strange, but true) give up using a computer if they discovered they didn't own everything on it.
I'm not sure how you back up such obvious speculation with "strange, but true", but I doubt very much that this is the case.
The reality is that most people are very aware that they don't own most intellectual property that they've purchased. We can't republish books under our own names, we can't sell copies of our tapes and DVDs, and we can't give our friends and family CD-R copies of Windows XP. Everyone knows this, and it bothers very few. Nobody is giving up computing because they aren't allowed to redistribute their commercial software.
If there is a legitimate reason to cracking it, then can someone point me to some literature about this subject,
They are cracking the login password for telnetting into your TiVo. There are a number of reasons why someone would do this, but mainly it has to do with wanting to customize your TiVo's functionality.
The "backdoor" password is basically like Ford welding your hood shut. You've bought the product, if you want to get in there and fuck around with it, why should you be prevented from doing so? Customizing your TiVo has absolutely no effect on the TiVo corporation.
Personally, I think TiVo is fucking up. The TiVo hacker community is amazingly bright. They may not shave, and they may smell funny, but believe me, you want these guys on your side. Up until now, the TiVo hackers have exhibited amazing restraint with respect to TiVo's intellectual property. They could have released HOWTOs on hacking TiVo's encrypted file system long ago, but TiVo's been nice to them. Who knows what they'll do now.
I don't know how dedicated you are to the cause, but it is possible to "re-master" Knoppix.
Basically, you boot Knoppix; copy it to a source partition; customize it however you want; and create an ISO image of the source partition. There are detailed instructions in the "forums" section of the Knoppix web site. It takes about 3 2-gig partitions and about an hour or so of disk-grinding, but it can be very rewarding.
I've been using custom Knoppix discs to boot thin-clients for an X app server (a la Linux Terminal Server Project). It's just a pilot project at this point, but it's been very successful.
He's not saying it's electrical interference. He's saying that screen flicker is a result of the flicker from your lights combining with the flick from your screen.
It is well known as the world's most secure operating system
Whoa, partner. Sure OpenBSD is designed with security in mind, and as far as the BSDs go (which are generally pretty secure in their own right), it's probably the tightest. But it's quite a leap to say that OpenBSD is the most secure operating system in the entire world.
I don't know which OS would get that "award". But I'd have to believe that it'd be something obscure like a tiny, embedded, OS the NSA uses in their crypto equipment or some such.
Oh, I was just kidding. I didn't really think you'd keep the screen under your seat.
Honestly, I thought you were kidding too. Although a technically interesting project, it sounds a little dangerous to me. Surely you don't plan on actually watching movies while you drive. Otherwise you should get a bumper sticker that says, "I brake... sometimes.";-)
I think case modding is rapidly becoming to computers what hot rodding is to cars.
Uhhh yeah - except that case modding has absolutely no *practical* value. Zero.
At least with hot rodding you end up with a faster car. Or that's the idea anyway. I still haven't figured out how a cherry bomb muffler and a "Type R" windshield sticker make your Honda any faster.
Bingo. What we need is ONE phone number that rings your cell phone, your land line, and any other lines you wish to tie into your "service" (e.g. work, vacation home, etc.).
Basically, it should be "smart" forwarding that will follow you anywhere you want to be found. There's a few technical hurdles to clear, but it really shouldn't be that hard. And it will be infinitely more useful than, "call me at home; or if I'm not there call my work, 648-3829; or maybe my cell..."
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Well, I've never bought LEDs from them, but I know they have a pretty good selection of VERY bright LEDs of practically any color.
http://hosfelt.com/en-us/dept_54.html
Embedding data signals in white noise is the easy part. It's getting them out that they haven't figured out yet.
Please don't /. the named.root files.
Oh get serious.
1) Slashdot is not that big. I think the Internet's root servers just might be able to handle a bigger load than you think.
2) There are 12 (?) other root servers out there to get your root hints from. If any sysadmins out there give up on downloading the root hints because one freakin' server doesn't respond - well, they've got bigger problems.
Almost every distribution is running Mozilla 1.0.1 or 1.1 by now.
Unfortunately, Debian is not one of them. Mozilla 1.0.0 is still the official version in both 'stable' and 'testing'.
I love Debian's 'apt-get' as much as the next guy. But they are sooooo slow to get new shit in the tree that it's not even funny. Hell, you've even got to use unofficial sources if you want to run KDE 3.
I know Debian's a volunteer distro, and I know that "freedom" and stability are their number one priorities. But come on guys, sometimes the dogmatism has to take a back seat to practicality.
Hmmm, so one mildly out of place comment by a proven Linux veteran would cause you to disregard his advice forever? Yeah - he needs to grow up.
and after seeing the results of the last election, I have serious doubts about Americas system of checks and balances.
Oh please. The Florida election debacle was more hilarious than it was anything else. One candidate lost votes because his supporters were too stupid to figure out the ballot. In typcial political fashion his party decided that spurious litigation was the answer. It wasn't.
Furthermore, even if the last presidential election results weren't fair, your complaint is that elections can be "hijacked" when, and only when, the results are tied within %1. Whoa! The pillars of democracy are fallin' down.
I don't propose that our political system is flawless (it isn't); but it's stable, it's fair, and most importantly, it's adaptable. Can you point me to a better one?
Even if it passes, it won't fly because a state can't legalize something that is federally outlawed.
No, it means it won't be a state crime, which means the local and state police won't enforce it. It would then be up to the federal law enforcement agencies to arrest people for possession of marijuana.
I think the FBI, ATF, etc. has bigger fish to fry than busting high school kids for smoking weed in their parents' basement.
Of course what would probably happen is the Feds would threaten to pull the plug on the millions of dollars they give the state in the form of various grants.
[Millions of computer users] don't understand the concept of software licensing, and most would probably (Strange, but true) give up using a computer if they discovered they didn't own everything on it.
I'm not sure how you back up such obvious speculation with "strange, but true", but I doubt very much that this is the case.
The reality is that most people are very aware that they don't own most intellectual property that they've purchased. We can't republish books under our own names, we can't sell copies of our tapes and DVDs, and we can't give our friends and family CD-R copies of Windows XP. Everyone knows this, and it bothers very few. Nobody is giving up computing because they aren't allowed to redistribute their commercial software.
If there is a legitimate reason to cracking it, then can someone point me to some literature about this subject,
They are cracking the login password for telnetting into your TiVo. There are a number of reasons why someone would do this, but mainly it has to do with wanting to customize your TiVo's functionality.
The "backdoor" password is basically like Ford welding your hood shut. You've bought the product, if you want to get in there and fuck around with it, why should you be prevented from doing so? Customizing your TiVo has absolutely no effect on the TiVo corporation.
Personally, I think TiVo is fucking up. The TiVo hacker community is amazingly bright. They may not shave, and they may smell funny, but believe me, you want these guys on your side. Up until now, the TiVo hackers have exhibited amazing restraint with respect to TiVo's intellectual property. They could have released HOWTOs on hacking TiVo's encrypted file system long ago, but TiVo's been nice to them. Who knows what they'll do now.
I don't know how dedicated you are to the cause, but it is possible to "re-master" Knoppix.
Basically, you boot Knoppix; copy it to a source partition; customize it however you want; and create an ISO image of the source partition. There are detailed instructions in the "forums" section of the Knoppix web site. It takes about 3 2-gig partitions and about an hour or so of disk-grinding, but it can be very rewarding.
I've been using custom Knoppix discs to boot thin-clients for an X app server (a la Linux Terminal Server Project). It's just a pilot project at this point, but it's been very successful.
Wouldn't that mean that a 60hz screen shouldn't have perceptible flicker in a room with incandescent lighting (or no lighting at all)?
He's not saying it's electrical interference. He's saying that screen flicker is a result of the flicker from your lights combining with the flick from your screen.
Whether or not that's true, I don't know.
It is well known as the world's most secure operating system
Whoa, partner. Sure OpenBSD is designed with security in mind, and as far as the BSDs go (which are generally pretty secure in their own right), it's probably the tightest. But it's quite a leap to say that OpenBSD is the most secure operating system in the entire world.
I don't know which OS would get that "award". But I'd have to believe that it'd be something obscure like a tiny, embedded, OS the NSA uses in their crypto equipment or some such.
Oh, I was just kidding. I didn't really think you'd keep the screen under your seat.
;-)
Honestly, I thought you were kidding too. Although a technically interesting project, it sounds a little dangerous to me. Surely you don't plan on actually watching movies while you drive. Otherwise you should get a bumper sticker that says, "I brake... sometimes."
Hmmm. Maybe I should go patent this idea.
;-)
Too late. I've got prior art from an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot that dates back to 10/31/02.
at 0.99999999996c, you can cross the galaxy in 12 years of your own time
Umm - the Milky Way galaxy is 150,000 light years across. [Pause] Oh shit! You are from the Milky Way, right?
How are you going to see the screen under the passenger seat? "Go go gadget neck"
I think case modding is rapidly becoming to computers what hot rodding is to cars.
Uhhh yeah - except that case modding has absolutely no *practical* value. Zero.
At least with hot rodding you end up with a faster car. Or that's the idea anyway. I still haven't figured out how a cherry bomb muffler and a "Type R" windshield sticker make your Honda any faster.
You pervert.
So what happens when they're not firing missles anymore, but lasers?
We'll use missiles to destroy their lasers, silly.
Usually it is some guy that would rather shoot himself in the foot than use up the afternoon installing windows Me
I thought installing Windows ME was shooting yourself in the foot.
Sadly, it runs windows so no one will actually want to use one for real work
Oh the monomania runs deep here...
Bingo. What we need is ONE phone number that rings your cell phone, your land line, and any other lines you wish to tie into your "service" (e.g. work, vacation home, etc.).
Basically, it should be "smart" forwarding that will follow you anywhere you want to be found. There's a few technical hurdles to clear, but it really shouldn't be that hard. And it will be infinitely more useful than, "call me at home; or if I'm not there call my work, 648-3829; or maybe my cell..."
'Even if CMOS density follows Moore's Law for 40 more years, molecular cascades are still going to be smaller'
Pfft - if I had a nickel for every time I heard that...
Shhhhhhhh - you're going to ruin it you fool.
Remember, we tell them their plans suck after they implement them (see SDMI).