A few years ago I knew a guy working for a company called "Video Wall" in London (UK). They used to take video wall (obviously I guess) gear around to various events (music, promotion etc) in the UK and abroad. Anyway, if they had enough gear left in the stores, they'd often wind down at the end of the day playing quake on a bank of 16 huge monitors, arranged in a 4x4 matrix.
IANAL, but I'd just ignore the idiot. No, wait, I'd encourage him to sue me, for the sheer fun in court - not that it'll ever happen. Even if this CEO is completely clueless, his lawyers (if they have ANY sense) will do at least a little research and conclude it would be an impossible case to win, and he'll be made to look a laughing stock in court.
The IP the mail was posted from (or at least the mail server it came through) will be right there in the headers. If there's any logging going on then this can be traced back to the remote host used to post the mail. If there's no logging, there's no proof either way!
Maybe you could go ahead and sue for defamation of character after the case were thrown out?;-)
Exactly. In the UK, Bizarre magazine has been using the same idea for a long time. They include a serial number in each issue you can use to access extra content on their website.
From the story: As previously reported by LAUNCH, the Bon Jovi album will include a serial number in the CD packaging, which will allow users to access exclusive content from the band's website. DownloadCard has filed a claim that it created the program used for access and offered it to the record label.
What "technology" is this exactly. For god's sake, its a number. The buyer types a number into a website and gets access - hardly cutting edge technology! Absolute crap - I hate the record companies as much as anyone with any sense of right and wrong, but seems to me "DownloadCard" are yet another 2 bit outfit trying to make a fast buck. We'll doubtless never hear of them or their "technologies" ever again after this case...
Another decent read, in my view was Takedown - the story of notorious "cracker" Kevin Mitnick. Although the author, Tsutomu Shimomura takes all the credit for doing aboslutely everything, and portrays his team and associates as bumbling idiots, the story about Kevin's life and habits is quite interesting.
Another pretty good story was "The Watchman" which was about Kevin Poulson, the famous Ma Bell phone switch hacker. This guy was a real freak! The ultimate geek, at one stage he had a stolen phone switch taking up most of his living room in his appartment, along with stolen unix terminals etc. He was the guy who kept winning phone competitions by controlling the phone equipment, and sending goths along to pick up the prizes!;-)
We also need computer consoles that explode in a hail of white sparks and smoke, possibly injuring the operator when something unusual is happening - a bit like those ones in Star Trek.
Makes me wonder why, some 400 years in the future, they don't have stricter guidelines on the construction of this equipment. And another thing, why don't they wear seatbelts to stop getting thrown about when a dylithium positronic relay explodes or something?
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What I always thought would be cool would be to figure out how to run it on my GeForce2 card using the triangle processors when I'm not playing Quake
Probably not an option with the GF2, but I wonder if more recent chipsets could actually be used in this way? Could the data be fed in and pushed back out?!
ASCI White (or, even better, Japan's new super computer) could probably crack RC5-64 in a matter of hours.
Hardly. We're talking about a third of a million participants taking 4 years here. Unless someone's developed a time machine and built ASCI from some future technology it's not that fast! (remember, many participants were science labs or other groups utilising several, sometimes hundreds of machines).
Now we should see project OGR really kick into gear!
I fully agree - I've recommended PuTTY to several people and they all came back to tell me how great it was! Mind you, these were all programmers/geeks so I'll admit it's probably not a family orientated tool.
PuTTY is probably the third-most used tool on my WindowsXP machine, after the web browser and text editor...
No-one is claiming that Apple will be porting OS-X to "PC hardware". They're simply exploring the option of using x86 CPUs. Using a Pentium/Athlon doesn't automatically mean you have to design a standard motherboard unless you intend to make a PC clone. In the same way, just because Ford use tyre brand X, and Rover use tyre brand X, it doesn't mean Ford==Rover.
Erm, it does on the default install of IE6. I've certainly never agreed to it, but it turns up. I now have the browser set to prompt when an activeX control wants to install itself etc. It surprised me when I ran Ad-aware and saw 9 known scumware tools infesting the machine.
I also have most advertising sites pointing to localhost, amazing how much faster things are! I still let a few such as geektools, sourceforge etc through though. The ones that are really p*ssing me off these days are those flash ads that move into the center of the damned page so you can't read the content/Pr0n;-)
Since there are new security exploits appearing for IE almost every month/week/few hours, unless you cripple the browser by turning off all scripting/java/activeX controls etc, you're likely to end up with a virus or shitload of marketing crap all over your harddrive eventually.
I still use it, and have now added entries in my local DNS server to block out links to gator etc as I got sick of uninstalling their redirect garbage.
Besides which, MS is the beast, as we all know and using their browser just encourages them...
I am alarmed at all this closeness with Microsoft lately (this, plus the media center PCs....what's next??)
Well if memory serves, MS will use HP for as long as it takes to get its own team together, then screw them over. Of course, MS may really value the partnership, and have absolutely no ulterior motiv...... sorry, I'm laughing too hard to finish!!
Seems to me that if even supposedly technically aware people are making the mistakes such as the poster's above, what chance does the average Joe have of understanding the erosion of rights?
Google Bombing has been effective in the past at putting the "real" word out using mob jusice, so why can't we combat the digital cancer of DRM in the same way? Having a government control technical advances is not too far removed from socialist oppresion, and we can see how that helped Russia become the tech powerhouse it is today. This really is the government's/corporation's (they are effectively the same thing in the US) best chance to control your lives and turn you into a statistical resource more than ever. You think DRM is just about "protecting content"? What about the enormous amount of marketting information companies will be able to gather by a few SQL queries matching the "thieving_customers" table with "address" and "purchases". It's a goldmine for the scum pushing junkmail into your lives.
I have to wonder if the guys behind this Linux distro are actively trying to attract court cases. Firstly the name, including the font is more than a little similar to another well known distro (they even have the L broken up into boxes, much like the flag logo).
Now their site appears to have striking similarities to Another well know OS/hardware manufacturer. I mean, come ON!
100% agree. Right from the title music I just knew it'd be crap. I gave it a chance, and watched twice, but I realized I honestly couldn't care less about any of the characters, the technology, or the plot. Which doesn't leave much.
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A few years ago I knew a guy working for a company called "Video Wall" in London (UK). They used to take video wall (obviously I guess) gear around to various events (music, promotion etc) in the UK and abroad. Anyway, if they had enough gear left in the stores, they'd often wind down at the end of the day playing quake on a bank of 16 huge monitors, arranged in a 4x4 matrix.
It was pretty damned sweet!
IANAL, but I'd just ignore the idiot. No, wait, I'd encourage him to sue me, for the sheer fun in court - not that it'll ever happen. Even if this CEO is completely clueless, his lawyers (if they have ANY sense) will do at least a little research and conclude it would be an impossible case to win, and he'll be made to look a laughing stock in court.
;-)
The IP the mail was posted from (or at least the mail server it came through) will be right there in the headers. If there's any logging going on then this can be traced back to the remote host used to post the mail. If there's no logging, there's no proof either way!
Maybe you could go ahead and sue for defamation of character after the case were thrown out?
Of course you can, providing it's not derived from some other code library, and contains no other elements involve patents, licenses etc.
Do you really want to spend time trying to emulate some lawyer by writing incomprehensible legalise though?
Exactly. In the UK, Bizarre magazine has been using the same idea for a long time. They include a serial number in each issue you can use to access extra content on their website.
From the story: As previously reported by LAUNCH, the Bon Jovi album will include a serial number in the CD packaging, which will allow users to access exclusive content from the band's website. DownloadCard has filed a claim that it created the program used for access and offered it to the record label.
What "technology" is this exactly. For god's sake, its a number. The buyer types a number into a website and gets access - hardly cutting edge technology! Absolute crap - I hate the record companies as much as anyone with any sense of right and wrong, but seems to me "DownloadCard" are yet another 2 bit outfit trying to make a fast buck. We'll doubtless never hear of them or their "technologies" ever again after this case...
So if I'm watching buffy, does it make the springs fly out and stab me in the back when she stakes one of the toothy evil dudes?
Another decent read, in my view was Takedown - the story of notorious "cracker" Kevin Mitnick. Although the author, Tsutomu Shimomura takes all the credit for doing aboslutely everything, and portrays his team and associates as bumbling idiots, the story about Kevin's life and habits is quite interesting.
;-)
Another pretty good story was "The Watchman" which was about Kevin Poulson, the famous Ma Bell phone switch hacker. This guy was a real freak! The ultimate geek, at one stage he had a stolen phone switch taking up most of his living room in his appartment, along with stolen unix terminals etc. He was the guy who kept winning phone competitions by controlling the phone equipment, and sending goths along to pick up the prizes!
...if EVERYONE drives 100 miles-per-hour, they change the speed limit.
Everyone isn't going to do this.
Too right! I'm not slowing down for anyone.
Trying to advocate civil disobedience! ;-)
The P4 has no unit dedicated to integer rotate
Eh? I thought every modern (or old) CPU had byte/word/dword shifts and rotates (rol/ror/shl/shr).
We also need computer consoles that explode in a hail of white sparks and smoke, possibly injuring the operator when something unusual is happening - a bit like those ones in Star Trek.
Makes me wonder why, some 400 years in the future, they don't have stricter guidelines on the construction of this equipment. And another thing, why don't they wear seatbelts to stop getting thrown about when a dylithium positronic relay explodes or something?
What I always thought would be cool would be to figure out how to run it on my GeForce2 card using the triangle processors when I'm not playing Quake
Probably not an option with the GF2, but I wonder if more recent chipsets could actually be used in this way? Could the data be fed in and pushed back out?!
Now I like wasting my time on technology as much as the next geek, but really! The words "more", "must", "out" and "get" spring to mind here...
Our peak rate of 270,147,024 kkeys/sec is equivalent to 32,504 800MHz Apple PowerBook G4 laptops or 45,998 2GHz AMD Athlon XP machines
Am I missing something here? Are they claiming the 800mhz G4 is over 1.4 times as fast as an Athlon 2ghz??
Looks like the writer has been exposed to the "Steve Jobs reality distortion field" for a little too long...
ASCI White (or, even better, Japan's new super computer) could probably crack RC5-64 in a matter of hours.
Hardly. We're talking about a third of a million participants taking 4 years here. Unless someone's developed a time machine and built ASCI from some future technology it's not that fast! (remember, many participants were science labs or other groups utilising several, sometimes hundreds of machines).
Now we should see project OGR really kick into gear!
I fully agree - I've recommended PuTTY to several people and they all came back to tell me how great it was! Mind you, these were all programmers/geeks so I'll admit it's probably not a family orientated tool.
PuTTY is probably the third-most used tool on my WindowsXP machine, after the web browser and text editor...
No-one is claiming that Apple will be porting OS-X to "PC hardware". They're simply exploring the option of using x86 CPUs. Using a Pentium/Athlon doesn't automatically mean you have to design a standard motherboard unless you intend to make a PC clone. In the same way, just because Ford use tyre brand X, and Rover use tyre brand X, it doesn't mean Ford==Rover.
Erm, it does on the default install of IE6. I've certainly never agreed to it, but it turns up. I now have the browser set to prompt when an activeX control wants to install itself etc. It surprised me when I ran Ad-aware and saw 9 known scumware tools infesting the machine.
;-)
I also have most advertising sites pointing to localhost, amazing how much faster things are! I still let a few such as geektools, sourceforge etc through though. The ones that are really p*ssing me off these days are those flash ads that move into the center of the damned page so you can't read the content/Pr0n
This will be on PC before any console. Nothing else matters.
Since there are new security exploits appearing for IE almost every month/week/few hours, unless you cripple the browser by turning off all scripting/java/activeX controls etc, you're likely to end up with a virus or shitload of marketing crap all over your harddrive eventually.
I still use it, and have now added entries in my local DNS server to block out links to gator etc as I got sick of uninstalling their redirect garbage.
Besides which, MS is the beast, as we all know and using their browser just encourages them...
I am alarmed at all this closeness with Microsoft lately (this, plus the media center PCs....what's next??)
Well if memory serves, MS will use HP for as long as it takes to get its own team together, then screw them over. Of course, MS may really value the partnership, and have absolutely no ulterior motiv...... sorry, I'm laughing too hard to finish!!
Seems to me that if even supposedly technically aware people are making the mistakes such as the poster's above, what chance does the average Joe have of understanding the erosion of rights?
Google Bombing has been effective in the past at putting the "real" word out using mob jusice, so why can't we combat the digital cancer of DRM in the same way? Having a government control technical advances is not too far removed from socialist oppresion, and we can see how that helped Russia become the tech powerhouse it is today. This really is the government's/corporation's (they are effectively the same thing in the US) best chance to control your lives and turn you into a statistical resource more than ever. You think DRM is just about "protecting content"? What about the enormous amount of marketting information companies will be able to gather by a few SQL queries matching the "thieving_customers" table with "address" and "purchases". It's a goldmine for the scum pushing junkmail into your lives.
I'm guessing Google still respects this, so it's pretty simple to stop it from deep linking...
I'm not so sure that you need Solaris to run a site generating a lot of traffic. I know of at least one site that manages with Linux ;-)
I have to wonder if the guys behind this Linux distro are actively trying to attract court cases. Firstly the name, including the font is more than a little similar to another well known distro (they even have the L broken up into boxes, much like the flag logo).
;-)
Now their site appears to have striking similarities to Another well know OS/hardware manufacturer. I mean, come ON!
Not that I'm saying it's not funny though
100% agree. Right from the title music I just knew it'd be crap. I gave it a chance, and watched twice, but I realized I honestly couldn't care less about any of the characters, the technology, or the plot. Which doesn't leave much.
At least Voyager had Jeri Ryan as eye-candy...