Thus far I am enjoying the BSG series, but I wonder why they feel the need to put bright lights in the helmets of the pilots. They would not be able to see a thing and the cylons would easily destroy every viper.
The thrusters my be realistic, however, any pilot with those bright lights shining in their face would be blind to the dog fight! Also, how many vipers can they lose from week to week before they start having a major resource issue?
I know this is not how people drive, but according to the driving manuals in the three states I have lived in, one is not suppose to enter an intersection unless they are able to leave the intersection.
The people that urk me the most are the ones who drive into the intersection while the light is green, but due to an accident or mis-timed light further down the road wind up parking in the intersection. Often times they stay parked in the intersection blocking traffic attempting to go in the other direction when their light is green.
If you can't get thru the intersection, then you have no right to enter it.
Your forgeting about the small aspect of theft of services. The "terrorist" is running his software on my machine without my permission. If I sell clock cycles, then he has stolen money from me. Also, if he damages data or erases harddrives, he has also caused me monitary damages. He may have a "right" to say what ever he wants, or even to write any piece of code he wants. However, the second he places any code on my machine, he has changed it from a political issue to a criminal issue.
I know Katz words are unpopular. I'm sure he does too. But if you read his words, he is not saying we should surrender our freedoms cartblanc. He is saying we should listen to all proposed ideas and take time to reflect on them before we automatically attempt to discredit them. There are some excellent ideas being proposed.
There are people who love to quote the founding father who says (paraphrased since I was not there to hear him) One who would trade liberty for security deserves neither. Those are grand words. But if you take them too the extreme, then we have no security because the government can't protect you without depriving the person who just killed 5000+ people of their liberty.
I have always resepected RMS for what he has done with software. His comments about "your unelected president" show RMS to be an extremist who's opinion in this matter is no more relevent than Britney Spears'.
If your using unstable, you really should use the following commands:
apt-get update
apt-get -u dist-upgrade
You want to use dist-upgrade since you are upgrading your distribution with every upgrade. It provides for better conflict resolution algrithms that are needed with a distribution upgrade. Second, the -u option flags you to make sure you really want to continue, listing every package it will upgrade, add, or remove. It is important to see what apt-get wants to remove due to version number conflicts before you boldly delete some required packages that you actually use. Currently, if I allowed the upgrade to continue, it would delete my nvidia 3d drivers. The current mesa drivers are not compatible with the nvidia drivers.
You can always upgrade any group of packages with:
I've never seen anyone properly address the issue of fraud and micropayments.
What will happen when I download content that costs me 0.01 USDollar and they make an "error" and charge me 1.00 USDollar. They have my micropayment account numbers so they can do this. How am I going to fight it? Never go back? Well, I've already been ripped off. If one site does this to me, I'll be mad, but I can afford the extra 99 cents. But what happens when several sites do it and your bill is now 30 dollars more than you expected? How about 300 dollars? It will cost you far more than 30 dollars (or 300) to fight it.
I have seen Fraud take place online with a couple of friends who tried some bad pr0n sites that continued to charge after the "trial" period was over. How do you fight them? I have seen fraud take place with AoL (not being able to get them to stop charging you after you wanted off the system). I have seen fraud in the long distant billing that gets tacked onto your local phone bill.
All these are examples of very small amounts of fraud that doesn't hit one customer enough to warrent the cost to fight the fraud in court. However, when multiplied out over tens of thousands of users, it makes the entity commiting the fraud a lot of money.
Come on guys. The guy was going 90 MPH. Unless he was the only person on the road, he was endangering countless lives other than his own. He was also endangering ACME's minivan. I would feel for the guy if he was boned for going 56 mph three times. But I will never feel sorry for a guy who was flagerently violating the law. He was also flagerently violating his rental agreement.
Also note, the article in no ways indicates the guy is disputing the fact that he was going 90 MPH. His only complaint is that he didn't know it would cost him so dearly.
If I owned the rental car company, I would look into this system. Not to track every car going 5 mph over the limit, but to prevent people from going 30 mph over the limit.
You sir are correct. The subject (or headline if you will) of the post, "You can't prove a negative", is over broad and false. Headlines are meant to be eye grabbing and often do not fully stand up to scrutiny.
However, in this case, the statement true. Also, if you read the message, the point is not the false headline in general, but rather that one can not prove there is "No Prior Art". All one can prove is that there is "Prior Art".
You sir are correct. The subject (or headline if you will) of the post, "You can't prove a negative", is over broad and false. Headlines are meant to be eye grabbing and often do not fully stand up to scrutiny.
However, in this case, the statement true. Also, if you read the message, the point is not the false headline in general, but rather that one can not prove there is "No Prior Art". All one can prove is that there is "Prior Art".
There is no way to Prove there is "No Prior Art". All you can prove is that there is "Prior Art". Not finding prior art is by no means proving that it is not there. Looks likes the patent will be gone in Japan.
Does anyone know of a good program out there to "break" (or brute-force) a pgp phasephrase?
Many years ago when I was in college I pgp'ed some files. Like a good boy, I didn't write down the passphrase, I memorized it. Needless to say, some years later I can no longer get in to them.
I mostly "know" my passphrase, but not enough to brute it. If there was something out there like l0pht that would allow me to config which characters to use in the brute force and which ones not to use, it would be very useful.
I would say this is old news, except that it isn't really news at all. Tivo has said from day one they were going to use anonymously collected data.
What could be news is what they are collecting. If you look at the logs, you will see they are collecting every button you press on the tivo remote. If you want to watch something without their knowledge, you are always free to change the channel without the tivo remote. I suppose doing this will slightly skew their numbers.
I see some people claiming they wouldn't mind tivo selling their data if they got a discount. Well, they are getting a discount. The 10$ a month (200$ lifetime) already take this into consideration.
Finally, anyone who is offended by this can very easily opt out. I think it would be well withen tivo's rights to increase the monthly charge or lifetime charge for people who do opt out.
Let me preface this by saying I'm an engineer in the oil busines.
It is a fact that I have turned down several very high paying engineering jobs that would have had me working in the middle of nowwhere. Not because there is no beer, but because there was an appereance that working in such a place would not allow me to socailize with people my age with my interest. I enjoy sports, skating, beer, nature trails, girls, computers, etc... A job that is 3 hours from civilization, requardless of the money or the abundance of beer is not going to hack it for me.
There is no way you can call those the 15 most influential PC games of all time. Most are from the 90s. Most require good graphics by today's standards, if not excellent by the days standards.
I don't see how any list of most influential games could be complete without:
1) Zork (the mother of all adventure games, but not infocoms best)
2) Wizardry
3) Doom (Which they mention, but only after Lara Croft and half-life)
4) Something like Lemmings, Pitfall, etc.. I can't think of a title.. What was the first big side scrolling game?
5) Pacman. There have been thousands of clones and the sound effects are still heard today in movies.
Say what??? Must be a troll I'm quickly falling over... However...
Just what part of a non-comerical warning stating your password on/. has been comprimised is spam? Maybe we have different definitions of spam, but the majority of people wouldn't consider it spam unless the email included an ad or other information besided the password being exploited.
YOu are right,/. is just a blinkin' website. And no, any smart person would not use the same password on a banking website that they use ANYWHERE else, even another banking website. However, most people (I've worked support in the past) use only one, two, or three different passwords for all their low secerity "profiles" on the web.
It might not be a good idea to worry about changing the/. password to anything other than a temp password for now, if even that, however it is a damned good idea to change the password on any other low secerity website, or high secirty websites if your a moron, that happen to have the same or similar passwords. Mr. Taco has already suggested you change your password in the story above.
Maybe you are smart enough to keep track of 100's of passwords in your head. Most people are not. The email warning would be for the majority of the people who a) are not smart enough to use a seperate password everywhere and b) don't log into slashdot everyday. Hell, many people I know only check/. every two or three days. One of these people might miss the comotion altogether.
Since Slashdot was cracked, and the password database was compromised, it seems to me a very important proper step is to email the user base suggesting they change their passwords. Not everyone logs in everymorning to slashdot. If I had not logged in, I would not have known my password was compromised.
It used to be you had to got to different websites to compare prices on your favorite pR0n. Now you can do your comparison shopping without ever leaving Amazon.com. First check the price while logged in with your user account. If you don't like those prices, log out to check the anonymous user prices. If you don't like those prices, log in as a new user and browse around in the religous section for a while and watch all the pR0n prices drop.
The cost bearier to enter the DTV market is very steep. A friend of mine purchased a DTV and receiver last weekend for almost 7000$. The current FCC rules are aiming for a total migration from the current analog format to the digital format by 2006. However, not allowing the recording of DTV programming in a similar fashion as current analog programming is only going to slow down the migration. You will have fewer early adopter which will keep the prices higher for longer.
I know I will not be tempted to by a digital TV until both the price comes down and there is a Digital Tivo.
Slashdot Mirror
Thus far I am enjoying the BSG series, but I wonder why they feel the need to put bright lights in the helmets of the pilots. They would not be able to see a thing and the cylons would easily destroy every viper.
The thrusters my be realistic, however, any pilot with those bright lights shining in their face would be blind to the dog fight! Also, how many vipers can they lose from week to week before they start having a major resource issue?
We don't want a foreign Ruler!
I know this is not how people drive, but according to the driving manuals in the three states I have lived in, one is not suppose to enter an intersection unless they are able to leave the intersection.
The people that urk me the most are the ones who drive into the intersection while the light is green, but due to an accident or mis-timed light further down the road wind up parking in the intersection. Often times they stay parked in the intersection blocking traffic attempting to go in the other direction when their light is green.
If you can't get thru the intersection, then you have no right to enter it.
Your forgeting about the small aspect of theft of services. The "terrorist" is running his software on my machine without my permission. If I sell clock cycles, then he has stolen money from me. Also, if he damages data or erases harddrives, he has also caused me monitary damages. He may have a "right" to say what ever he wants, or even to write any piece of code he wants. However, the second he places any code on my machine, he has changed it from a political issue to a criminal issue.
I know Katz words are unpopular. I'm sure he does too. But if you read his words, he is not saying we should surrender our freedoms cartblanc. He is saying we should listen to all proposed ideas and take time to reflect on them before we automatically attempt to discredit them. There are some excellent ideas being proposed.
There are people who love to quote the founding father who says (paraphrased since I was not there to hear him) One who would trade liberty for security deserves neither. Those are grand words. But if you take them too the extreme, then we have no security because the government can't protect you without depriving the person who just killed 5000+ people of their liberty.
Think about it.
Quack
I'm not dising Britney. Her music is fine. However, I don't think her fame has given her any special insight into politics.
Quack
I have always resepected RMS for what he has done with software. His comments about "your unelected president" show RMS to be an extremist who's opinion in this matter is no more relevent than Britney Spears'.
Quack
If your using unstable, you really should use the following commands:
...
apt-get update
apt-get -u dist-upgrade
You want to use dist-upgrade since you are upgrading your distribution with every upgrade. It provides for better conflict resolution algrithms that are needed with a distribution upgrade. Second, the -u option flags you to make sure you really want to continue, listing every package it will upgrade, add, or remove. It is important to see what apt-get wants to remove due to version number conflicts before you boldly delete some required packages that you actually use. Currently, if I allowed the upgrade to continue, it would delete my nvidia 3d drivers. The current mesa drivers are not compatible with the nvidia drivers.
You can always upgrade any group of packages with:
apt-get install package1 package2
Good luck
quack
I've never seen anyone properly address the issue of fraud and micropayments.
What will happen when I download content that costs me 0.01 USDollar and they make an "error" and charge me 1.00 USDollar. They have my micropayment account numbers so they can do this. How am I going to fight it? Never go back? Well, I've already been ripped off. If one site does this to me, I'll be mad, but I can afford the extra 99 cents. But what happens when several sites do it and your bill is now 30 dollars more than you expected? How about 300 dollars? It will cost you far more than 30 dollars (or 300) to fight it.
I have seen Fraud take place online with a couple of friends who tried some bad pr0n sites that continued to charge after the "trial" period was over. How do you fight them? I have seen fraud take place with AoL (not being able to get them to stop charging you after you wanted off the system). I have seen fraud in the long distant billing that gets tacked onto your local phone bill.
All these are examples of very small amounts of fraud that doesn't hit one customer enough to warrent the cost to fight the fraud in court. However, when multiplied out over tens of thousands of users, it makes the entity commiting the fraud a lot of money.
Quack
Come on guys. The guy was going 90 MPH. Unless he was the only person on the road, he was endangering countless lives other than his own. He was also endangering ACME's minivan. I would feel for the guy if he was boned for going 56 mph three times. But I will never feel sorry for a guy who was flagerently violating the law. He was also flagerently violating his rental agreement.
Also note, the article in no ways indicates the guy is disputing the fact that he was going 90 MPH. His only complaint is that he didn't know it would cost him so dearly.
If I owned the rental car company, I would look into this system. Not to track every car going 5 mph over the limit, but to prevent people from going 30 mph over the limit.
quack
You sir are correct. The subject (or headline if you will) of the post, "You can't prove a negative", is over broad and false. Headlines are meant to be eye grabbing and often do not fully stand up to scrutiny.
However, in this case, the statement true. Also, if you read the message, the point is not the false headline in general, but rather that one can not prove there is "No Prior Art". All one can prove is that there is "Prior Art".
Quack
You sir are correct. The subject (or headline if you will) of the post, "You can't prove a negative", is over broad and false. Headlines are meant to be eye grabbing and often do not fully stand up to scrutiny.
However, in this case, the statement true. Also, if you read the message, the point is not the false headline in general, but rather that one can not prove there is "No Prior Art". All one can prove is that there is "Prior Art".
Quack
There is no way to Prove there is "No Prior Art". All you can prove is that there is "Prior Art". Not finding prior art is by no means proving that it is not there. Looks likes the patent will be gone in Japan.
Quack
Does anyone know of a good program out there to "break" (or brute-force) a pgp phasephrase?
Many years ago when I was in college I pgp'ed some files. Like a good boy, I didn't write down the passphrase, I memorized it. Needless to say, some years later I can no longer get in to them.
I mostly "know" my passphrase, but not enough to brute it. If there was something out there like l0pht that would allow me to config which characters to use in the brute force and which ones not to use, it would be very useful.
Quack
I would say this is old news, except that it isn't really news at all. Tivo has said from day one they were going to use anonymously collected data.
What could be news is what they are collecting. If you look at the logs, you will see they are collecting every button you press on the tivo remote. If you want to watch something without their knowledge, you are always free to change the channel without the tivo remote. I suppose doing this will slightly skew their numbers.
I see some people claiming they wouldn't mind tivo selling their data if they got a discount. Well, they are getting a discount. The 10$ a month (200$ lifetime) already take this into consideration.
Finally, anyone who is offended by this can very easily opt out. I think it would be well withen tivo's rights to increase the monthly charge or lifetime charge for people who do opt out.
Quack1701
Let me preface this by saying I'm an engineer in the oil busines.
It is a fact that I have turned down several very high paying engineering jobs that would have had me working in the middle of nowwhere. Not because there is no beer, but because there was an appereance that working in such a place would not allow me to socailize with people my age with my interest. I enjoy sports, skating, beer, nature trails, girls, computers, etc... A job that is 3 hours from civilization, requardless of the money or the abundance of beer is not going to hack it for me.
In a real auction house, the auction house has some resposiblity to prevent fraud. E*Bay seems to not want to take this responsisblity.
Is that card really signed by Mark McGwyer? Does that video card really work?
Quack
There is no way you can call those the 15 most influential PC games of all time. Most are from the 90s. Most require good graphics by today's standards, if not excellent by the days standards.
I don't see how any list of most influential games could be complete without:
1) Zork (the mother of all adventure games, but not infocoms best)
2) Wizardry
3) Doom (Which they mention, but only after Lara Croft and half-life)
4) Something like Lemmings, Pitfall, etc.. I can't think of a title.. What was the first big side scrolling game?
5) Pacman. There have been thousands of clones and the sound effects are still heard today in movies.
quack
Or is more like Micorsoft is profiting from other people reverse engineering their own API?
Quack
Say what??? Must be a troll I'm quickly falling over... However...
/. has been comprimised is spam? Maybe we have different definitions of spam, but the majority of people wouldn't consider it spam unless the email included an ad or other information besided the password being exploited.
/. is just a blinkin' website. And no, any smart person would not use the same password on a banking website that they use ANYWHERE else, even another banking website. However, most people (I've worked support in the past) use only one, two, or three different passwords for all their low secerity "profiles" on the web.
/. password to anything other than a temp password for now, if even that, however it is a damned good idea to change the password on any other low secerity website, or high secirty websites if your a moron, that happen to have the same or similar passwords. Mr. Taco has already suggested you change your password in the story above.
/. every two or three days. One of these people might miss the comotion altogether.
Just what part of a non-comerical warning stating your password on
YOu are right,
It might not be a good idea to worry about changing the
Maybe you are smart enough to keep track of 100's of passwords in your head. Most people are not. The email warning would be for the majority of the people who a) are not smart enough to use a seperate password everywhere and b) don't log into slashdot everyday. Hell, many people I know only check
Quack
Since Slashdot was cracked, and the password database was compromised, it seems to me a very important proper step is to email the user base suggesting they change their passwords. Not everyone logs in everymorning to slashdot. If I had not logged in, I would not have known my password was compromised.
Quack
Why not just hand carry it? He'd get a vaction. A chance to see his friend. And first hand knowledge the package made it.
Quack
New feature added to Amazon.com!
It used to be you had to got to different websites to compare prices on your favorite pR0n. Now you can do your comparison shopping without ever leaving Amazon.com. First check the price while logged in with your user account. If you don't like those prices, log out to check the anonymous user prices. If you don't like those prices, log in as a new user and browse around in the religous section for a while and watch all the pR0n prices drop.
Quack
The cost bearier to enter the DTV market is very steep. A friend of mine purchased a DTV and receiver last weekend for almost 7000$. The current FCC rules are aiming for a total migration from the current analog format to the digital format by 2006. However, not allowing the recording of DTV programming in a similar fashion as current analog programming is only going to slow down the migration. You will have fewer early adopter which will keep the prices higher for longer.
I know I will not be tempted to by a digital TV until both the price comes down and there is a Digital Tivo.
Quack