Wow. I've been called a lot of things, including whorebiscuit, assclown and fucknozzle. You may be surprised to hear this, but I've never been called an ignorant slut before! Thanks!
To clarify, I was refering to the editors' little blurbs in the stories, not the stories themselves. Filtering everything Michael posts would make the YRO section, which I read when I'm not feeling ignorant, rather empty.
Since when does Symmantec have a moral obligation to do anything? They're a corporation.
Are you implying that corporations have no moral obligations? That these entities that, by disgusting perversion of the law, have much the same rights as actual people. Entities that are themselves composed of individuals acting in concert. Are you implying that they should be bound only by law and market?
For what it's worth, I don't really have a problem with Symmantec in this case, but I am greatly concerned by the increasingly common belief that corporations should have the same rights, but not responsibilities, as people.
It isn't clear to me how Symantec could know, hours in advance, about a worm which took ten minutes to spread throughout the entire Internet, unless they had something to do with its release. (Emphasis mine.)
-1, Troll
Thank you for reminding my threshold-set-to-4 ass how bad the signal-to-noise ratio around here can be. (Note : I'm not one of those big anti-michael psychos, but I wish there was some way to filter certain editors' comments.)
it would be nice to get some panels that have higher effeciency and have lower cost per kilowatt hour.
I've got some of those. Yeah, in the other room, behind all the beautiful naked women with Ogg-playing iPods, in between the cure for cancer and the ability to quickly factor the product of large primes, and above the fountain of youth.
It would be nice to have electricity without having to burn petrified/liquified dinosaurs.
While 3+GHz might be overkill right now, is it overkill few years down the road?
Yes. Hell, for most applications, 1GHz is overkill now, and it's been how long since we hit that point? Now, I'm all for making long-term investments, but it's hard to justify an extra $600 for just a processor, when I can get a whole 1GHz+ machine for as much that will last just as long.
The money saved can be used to buy things in the meantime, like ice cream. Everybody likes ice cream.
Does anyone actually think that the RIAA would have any kind of problem with this? I think it's safe to say that they will get a cut of the massively overpriced live CDs. It also stands to reason that DRM may be a part of the equation, or at the very least, a lot of bitching about live CDs popping up all over P2P. Hell, I can see a lot of users bitching about the networks being flooded with dozens of different live shows.
On the other hand, I like the idea. Mainly because I had it about two years ago, but couldn't afford the hardware. Now watch them patent it. Assclowns.
At this point bandwith is key, and it is these kinds of situations where specifically-designed graphics workstations (eg. SGI) mop the floor with your $400 games cards.
Surprisingly enough, this is not as true as it used to be, according to this super interesting paper. Basically, they found that a plain old Athlon with a GeForce3 performed and looked better than a $100k SGI, in some cases, by huge margins.
(Granted, the paper concerns realtime volumetric rendering of medical imaging (i.e. turning 2D brain scans into 3D models), and not video editing or traditional 3D modeling, but in either case, bandwidth is the key limiting factor.)
I wonder, what will happen? Will these URLs be silently deleted from the cache?
Yup. Google even has a nice handy web interface "If you believe your request is urgent". (Rather than waiting for the GoogleBot to re-spider the site.)
I think it's a bit of an overreaction to think that somehow Google will get sued due to something that is overwhelmingly a government webmaster's mistake, and something so easily remedied.
I'm horrified that taxpayers are shelling out for this.
I'm horrified that taxpayers are shelling out for new nuclear weapons, missile defence shields, bombs, bullets, tanks, the dubious 'war on drugs', tax breaks for the rich, mediocre public education, prison construction, Total Information Awareness, and a whole lot of other things.
I doubt very much that they could degrade the qualify of a music file in such a way that the MD5 doesn't change.
I can't think of anything stopping them from using a specialized client that would let them spoof the reported MD5 (or SHA1) as well as the file. It wouldn't verify, as the actual MD5 would be different, but you wouldn't know that until the file had finished downloading.
You would still have to download the file completely before you could check it,
Ignoring the whole "Gnutella2" debate for a moment, one of the enhancements that Shareaza has made is to search for alternate hosts by SHA1 hash. That is to say, after you've selected a file by name, the host sends you the hash, allowing your client to re-search by SHA1, which will locate files that are binary-identical, but with different names. It does also verify the hash when completed, too.
This wouldn't quite prevent spoofing in the event that you initially selected a spoofed file, but it would keep you from having part-real, part-fake file.
Quoth this article: "I think it's absolutely irrefutable that this couldn't be anything other than a machine. It's an astonishing picture."
See that? Absolutely irrefutable! So just give up the debate! This man is obviously an extremely smart scientist. How else could he be so absolutely sure?
New FireWire connector. I know that this might not be Apples fault, but yet another connector type for 800Gb FireWire, ugh. Yeah yeah, an adapters available, but couldn't IEEE figure out a way to make the two compatable?
I don't think that this will be a problem, as the only model that has FireWire 800 (the 17" PowerBook) also has two FireWire 400 ports. If someone can afford a PowerBook and enough stuff to use 3 FireWire ports, they can also probably afford a FireWire hub.
Most likely to go "cube" -- The 12" PowerBook.
Unlike the Cube, the PB has more than style on it's side. The specs (and price) are right inline between the high-end iBooks and the 15" PowerBooks, with the addition of AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth, DDR memory, slot-loading drive (even a SuperDrive), and a more 'professional' look than the iBooks.
The Cube, on the other hand, was slower than all of the other models, and far more expensive.
For a pretty Linux desktop experience there's Debian; for the more seasoned Linux hackers there is Mandrake and SuSE; for the Linux newbies there's Slackware and Gentoo.
Wow, that's some typo.
I don't know which part is funnier, the idea of Debian being a pretty desktop, or Slackware being for newbies.
They also don't tell you that the entire system uses about as much power as a single chip from Intel/AMD.
The Via C3 chips (decended from Cyrix, but definitely an improved design) use less power and dissapate less heat than even a Transmeta Crusoe. They don't need fans, and can usually run without even a heatsink.
The performance difference is mostly in floating-point, which Cyrix was always horrible at. But that really only applies to 3D games. Integer apps (ie, everything else) run about the same.
So, maybe it's not a free lunch, but it's still pretty cheap.
That's funny, because it seems to work just fine with other clients. At this very minute, I'm connected to 1 Shareaza Hub and 3 Limewire UltraPeers.
I don't blame you for spouting such FUD, as I assumed that Shareaza was trying to hijack Gnutella as well. But by actually using it, I've realized that it's not. Nor is it spyware ladden like KaZaa or LimeWire ("repackaging" aside). It's actually the best gnutella client I've ever used.
Again, you have no idea what you're talking about. You're making assumptions based on completely false statements. I know this is Slashdot, but please, stop it!
The idea has *nothing to do with filesystems*. The idea has to do with user interfaces. In particular, an interface to replace the desktop metaphor for personal use. VMS need not apply. The idea is meant, in part, to separate the way a user organizes his files from the way the underlying OS does.
The idea is a very good one, though this article doesn't give much of the actual theory behind it. The problem is, the only way it *might* come to fruition on a large scale is by, as this article states, giving up the 'plumbing' to Microsoft.
Please don't make sweeping statements like "Anything more complex would only be building upon this, and could hardly be considered revolutionary.", when you so clearly don't know what you're talking about. It makes you look like an assclown.
Jebus, not only do you not seem to have any idea of what you're talking about, you seem to think that refering to that godforsaken movie is something that you shouldn't be shot for!
The WinBeta people are trying to pass them off as the real thing. They are not. Therefore they are fake.
And for the record, they do look incredibly fake. I mean, outstandingly. It's more than just inconsistent antialiasing. And the fact that the source images for the background picture are are on the dude's hard drive. And all the attention that the easily Photoshopable clock has gotten (And why on earth would MS add a bigass analog clock?). It looks like something bored French teenagers might create.
They could be real, but there's definitely something fishy about them.
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Wow. I've been called a lot of things, including whorebiscuit, assclown and fucknozzle. You may be surprised to hear this, but I've never been called an ignorant slut before! Thanks!
To clarify, I was refering to the editors' little blurbs in the stories, not the stories themselves. Filtering everything Michael posts would make the YRO section, which I read when I'm not feeling ignorant, rather empty.
Since when does Symmantec have a moral obligation to do anything? They're a corporation.
Are you implying that corporations have no moral obligations? That these entities that, by disgusting perversion of the law, have much the same rights as actual people. Entities that are themselves composed of individuals acting in concert. Are you implying that they should be bound only by law and market?
For what it's worth, I don't really have a problem with Symmantec in this case, but I am greatly concerned by the increasingly common belief that corporations should have the same rights, but not responsibilities, as people.
It isn't clear to me how Symantec could know, hours in advance, about a worm which took ten minutes to spread throughout the entire Internet, unless they had something to do with its release. (Emphasis mine.)
-1, Troll
Thank you for reminding my threshold-set-to-4 ass how bad the signal-to-noise ratio around here can be. (Note : I'm not one of those big anti-michael psychos, but I wish there was some way to filter certain editors' comments.)
I've got some of those. Yeah, in the other room,
behind all the beautiful naked women with Ogg-playing iPods, in between
the cure for cancer and the ability to quickly factor the product of large primes, and above the fountain of youth.
It would be nice to have electricity without having to burn petrified/liquified dinosaurs.
While 3+GHz might be overkill right now, is it overkill few years down the road?
Yes. Hell, for most applications, 1GHz is overkill
now, and it's been how long since we hit
that point? Now, I'm all for making long-term
investments, but it's hard to justify an extra
$600 for just a processor, when I can get a
whole 1GHz+ machine for as much that will last just
as long.
The money saved can be used to buy things in the
meantime, like ice cream. Everybody likes ice cream.
Does anyone actually think that the RIAA would have any kind of problem with this? I think it's safe to say that they will get a cut of the massively overpriced live CDs. It also stands to reason that DRM may be a part of the equation, or at the very least, a lot of bitching about live CDs popping up all over P2P. Hell, I can see a lot of users bitching about the networks being flooded with dozens of different live shows.
On the other hand, I like the idea. Mainly because I had it about two years ago, but couldn't afford the hardware. Now watch them patent it. Assclowns.
Can we get a mod option for "-10, Blatantly swiped from Amazon.com review"?
What we have here is a troll.
Surprisingly enough, this is not as true as it used to be, according to this super interesting paper. Basically, they found that a plain old Athlon with a GeForce3 performed and looked better than a $100k SGI, in some cases, by huge margins.
(Granted, the paper concerns realtime volumetric rendering of medical imaging (i.e. turning 2D brain scans into 3D models), and not video editing or traditional 3D modeling, but in either case, bandwidth is the key limiting factor.)
Yup. Google even has a nice handy web interface
"If you believe your request is urgent".
(Rather than waiting for the GoogleBot to re-spider the site.)
I think it's a bit of an overreaction to think that somehow Google will get sued due to something that is overwhelmingly a government webmaster's mistake, and something so easily remedied.
I'm horrified that taxpayers are shelling out for this.
I'm horrified that taxpayers are shelling out for new nuclear weapons, missile defence shields, bombs, bullets, tanks, the dubious 'war on drugs', tax breaks for the rich, mediocre public education, prison construction, Total Information Awareness, and a whole lot of other things.
Frankly, I'm thankful for a nice free video game!
I doubt very much that they could degrade the qualify of a music file in such a way that the MD5 doesn't change.
I can't think of anything stopping them from using a specialized client that would let them spoof the reported MD5 (or SHA1) as well as the file. It wouldn't verify, as the actual MD5 would be different, but you wouldn't know that until the file had finished downloading.
Ignoring the whole "Gnutella2" debate for a moment, one of the enhancements that Shareaza has made is to search for alternate hosts by SHA1 hash. That is to say, after you've selected a file by name, the host sends you the hash, allowing your client to re-search by SHA1, which will locate files that are binary-identical, but with different names. It does also verify the hash when completed, too.
This wouldn't quite prevent spoofing in the event that you initially selected a spoofed file, but it would keep you from having part-real, part-fake file.
Perhaps the statement isn't supposed to be
"SUVs pollute the environment.",
but rather,
"SUVs are symbols of disgustingly excessive consumerism."
or
"SUVs are a major factor in our reliance on foreign oil."
or perhaps (most appropriately)
"SUVs are unsafe."
Quoth this article :
"I think it's absolutely irrefutable that this couldn't be anything other than a machine. It's an astonishing picture."
See that? Absolutely irrefutable! So just give up the debate! This man is obviously an extremely smart scientist. How else could he be so absolutely sure?
-drb
These silly Dutch generative art people have gone and discovered that cities can be used as Turing machines, and they don't even know it!
I don't think that this will be a problem, as the only model that has FireWire 800 (the 17" PowerBook) also has two FireWire 400 ports. If someone can afford a PowerBook and enough stuff to use 3 FireWire ports, they can also probably afford a FireWire hub.
Unlike the Cube, the PB has more than style on it's side. The specs (and price) are right inline between the high-end iBooks and the 15" PowerBooks, with the addition of AirPort Extreme, Bluetooth, DDR memory, slot-loading drive (even a SuperDrive), and a more 'professional' look than the iBooks.
The Cube, on the other hand, was slower than all of the other models, and far more expensive.
Quoth the article :
(Story continues after advertisement)
-DoctorB
Wow, that's some typo.
I don't know which part is funnier, the idea
of Debian being a pretty desktop, or Slackware being for newbies.
They also don't tell you that the entire system uses about as much power as a single chip from Intel/AMD.
The Via C3 chips (decended from Cyrix, but definitely an improved design) use less power and dissapate less heat than even a Transmeta Crusoe. They don't need fans, and can usually run without even a heatsink.
The performance difference is mostly in floating-point, which Cyrix was always horrible at. But that really only applies to 3D games. Integer apps (ie, everything else) run about the same.
So, maybe it's not a free lunch, but it's still pretty cheap.
That's funny, because it seems to work just fine with other clients. At this very minute, I'm connected to 1 Shareaza Hub and 3 Limewire UltraPeers.
I don't blame you for spouting such FUD, as I assumed that Shareaza was trying to hijack Gnutella as well. But by actually using it, I've realized that it's not. Nor is it spyware ladden like KaZaa or LimeWire ("repackaging" aside). It's actually the best gnutella client I've ever used.
Be prepared to wait a good 10-20 more years. It's patented. Darn.
Say what you will about stupid patents, but I think this one is fair. It's a good idea, too, but it won't work anytime soon.
Again, you have no idea what you're talking about. You're making assumptions based on completely false statements. I know this is Slashdot, but please, stop it!
The idea has *nothing to do with filesystems*. The idea has to do with user interfaces. In particular, an interface to replace the desktop metaphor for personal use. VMS need not apply.
The idea is meant, in part, to separate the way a user organizes his files from the way the underlying OS does.
The idea is a very good one, though this article doesn't give much of the actual theory behind it. The problem is, the only way it *might* come to fruition on a large scale is by, as this article states, giving up the 'plumbing' to Microsoft.
Please don't make sweeping statements like "Anything more complex would only be building upon this, and could hardly be considered revolutionary.", when you so clearly don't know what you're talking about. It makes you look like an assclown.
Why the fuck is this +5, Insightful!?
Jebus, not only do you not seem to have any idea of what you're talking about, you seem to think that refering to that godforsaken movie is something that you shouldn't be shot for!
The WinBeta people are trying to pass them off as the real thing. They are not. Therefore they are fake.
And for the record, they do look incredibly fake. I mean, outstandingly. It's more than just inconsistent antialiasing. And the fact that the source images for the background picture are are on the dude's hard drive. And all the attention that the easily Photoshopable clock has gotten (And why on earth would MS add a bigass analog clock?). It looks like something bored French teenagers might create.
They could be real, but there's definitely something fishy about them.
Either this is a well-crafted troll,
or plainly off-topic.
*Hybrid* vehicles are not the same as
*electric* vehicles.
Hybrids still use gas. They do not
plug into an outlet. They can be
thought of very efficient, very low
emission, gasoline-powered cars.