generation of iPod comes out. If this, and the Rokr, succeeds then Steve Jobs knows that he needs to develop an iPod with a WiFi chipset and iTMS interface. If it fails he stays the Hell away from it. Has anyone done any research on how well these all-in-one devices are selling? Yeah, I know tons of people with camera phones, but no one uses them, is anyone really going to go for this or just get an iPod?
Damn! You are a fucking stallion! I knew I'd seen that somewhere before. You sir are a master of film dialogue
trivia and memorization and I admire you for it. Really, I do, this is just one of those ways that guys can do that
drives women crazy because they just don't understand it. You frigging rock. You must drive your girlfriend/wife crazy.
"This is Seth from the Mandarin front desk. The following DVDs have been automatically charged to your account: Drunken Hussies, Backdoor Patrol, and Mona Lisa Smile. Thank you."
Hey! I didn't rent Mona Lisa Smile. It was Mona Lisa's Pearl Necklace.
Do it damn you! Do it. Man, you've managed to combine lame patents with a riff on the DMCA and the grandfather paradox
as applied to IP law. Brilliant.
Does having two cores make hyperthreading unncessary, or was it dropped because they couldn't build hyperthreading and dual CPUs into an LGA775 package?
I don't see the problem. Once you know which form factor your CPU is you're 90 percent of the way to figuring out which
CPUs you can use. When I could find a Pentium with AMD64 (screw you and your EM64T shit, Intel) for a decent price it took about five minutes for me to figure out if it would work with my motherboard (BIOS update necessary) before I ordered it. This stuff isn't rocket science.
We're not talking about symmetric cryptography here. We're dealing with large prime numbers and lots of funny math. The General Number Field Sieve factoring algorithm is not O(2^n) like a brute force search on AES would be. The actual order of growth of the GNFS algorithm is:
O(e^(1.9229+O(1))*ln(n)^(1/3)*ln(ln(n))^(2/3))
This can be found numerous places on the web. So adding one bit to your RSA key does far, far less for you than adding one bit to symmetric cipher like AES. You can do the math yourself, but you'll find that you need to add >>1 bits to an RSA key to double its strength.
How much longer would it take to break a 1024 bit cypher using this method? I can't get bc to do the math for me.
to the BitTorrent game but after installing BT this weekend and downloading SuSE 10 (yes it took 12 hours, but I started it before I went to bed and had the ISO images the next day) it seems to me that decentralized P2P was going to be the wave of the future even if MGM v. Grokster hadn't gone the way it had.
Of course given the stupidity and greed of the **AAs it would not surprise me to see them attempt to crush BT either by going after Bram Cohen or by having their bought and paid for congresscritters write an exceptionally broad addendum to the DMCA that would ban any development or distribution of P2P software. Of course the inevitable consequences of such a ban will be disastrous, but they'll take several election cycles to materialize, which is far beyond the horizon of the aforementioned congresscritters.
Hey Mr. Conservatard guy, what other "history corrections" would you like to give us while you're at it. Perhaps the Holocaust never happened. Perhaps George W. Bush actually served in Vietnam and won the Congressional Medal of Honor. Perhaps slavery wasn't such a bad thing after all. Perhaps America never landed a man on the moon. What other inconvenient truths might be airbrushed out or deleted with Photoshop whilst you're running around and
"correcting" history. Ya know, Joe Stalin was really big on "correcting" history, and given the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the American right it's no surprise to me that a self-identified American conservative such as yourself would be taking a page out of his book.
Right now you have live CDs that you can boot from to run Linux on a Windows machine without touching the hard drive, but you then have to reboot the machine into Windows to run your Doze stuff, now you could run Linux apps in your Windows environment. Another cool application might be a virtual machine that runs your browser and another one that runs your e-mail, get a virus? Not a problem, it's isolated in the virtual sandbox. I haven't worked with vmWare in a long time, how does the performance stack up these days? I might have to get a copy and play around with this.
You put a guy on mars, let him walk around, and return all for just 20 Million. Now that would make your point.
What NASA does is expensive, and new.
No, what NASAs manned spaceflight program does is simply expensive. How much new technology and scientific knowledge have we received from ISS? Nothing, zip, nada, fuck-all, it's Skylab, rev 2, but with massive cost overruns. How much new technology and scientific knowledge have we received from the Space Shuttle program? Nothing, zip, nada, fuck-all. What did we get from the X-33 program? Nothing, Lockheed never even flew a single piece of hardware. Hell it was cheaper to launch Saturn V's than it is to launch the Space Shuttle, and the Saturn Vs could take us to the moon, the Shuttle can take us to low earth orbit with a two percent chance that we aren't going to get our astronauts back. How much new technology was developed in the two years that NASA spent between the loss of Columbia and the launch of Discovery? Oh wow, perhaps they might have developed some sort of exciting technology to make styrofoam stick to the ET. Boy, that's something to write home about. And what is NASA talking about replacing the disastrous Shuttle program with, well they're looking at using boosters derived from Shuttle technology, wow, that's new, 30 year old technology in different launch configurations, it's marginally better than what we have now and keeps the dollars flowing to Lockheed and Boeing, but don't fool yourself into thinking that it does a damned thing to further manned space exploration.
NASA's manned program hasn't been worth a shit since they let Skylab fall out of the sky. We've wasted 30 fucking years with the Shuttle program and billions with ISS and we've gone nowhere new and gotten nothing worthwhile from these programs.
Sure, it's nice not to have to relearn how to wipe your ass every day but on the other hand I've met amputees who had serious damage to their legs and after years of surgery they finally elected to have an amputation so that they could have a fully functional prosthesis rather than a non-functional and painful leg. But the bitch of it is that the chronic pain they suffered rewired their brains to feel chronic pain and a lot of them still have quite a bit of pain after their amputations, even though the affected limb is gone.
to compare what they did, to what NASA does is just stupid.
Yeah, really, it's stupid. 20 million is what NASA pays for six weeks worth of drinking water on ISS. Designing, building and testing a successful sub-orbital spacecraft for 20 million is totally stupid, why do that when you could spend it on bottled water?
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The guy who wrote this is full of shit, and he's also the author if nano, a pico competitor. PINE/PICO were developed by the University of Washington, the chances of the UW implementing the kind of restrictive licensing that he refers to are slim to none. It's pure FUD, only this time from someone in the OSS community.
IMDB has what I consider to be one of the worst "discussions" on the web today. Perhaps this has gotten better since they started requiring registration, but I'm highly doubtful. The funny thing about the IMDB boards was that you could pick pretty much any thread from any movie, and within 3-5 posts it would degrade into a total flamewar. And not just a debate of the movie, or any topic, mind you... just an all out mindless flame war.
It was comic in its uselessness.
And here you are, posting to/. about a site where discussions quickly degenerate into flamewars and which is comic in its uselessness. You sir have a finely honed sense of irony. I salute you.
look like Yarn Man from the Megaton Man comic book. That would be the only costume that he could create that would actually look something like the character and which wouldn't totally suck.
Local TV affiliates, which are incredibly profitable businesses that manage to satisfy their public service obligations by airing local TV news shows that have become so idiotic that they are impossible to parody any more and the occasional PSA telling you "Don't suspect a friend, turn him in." might lose out on part of their revenue stream. "Waaaahhhh, we're big media, consumers owe us a living.". Call 1-976-CRY-BABY (279-2229), it's two bucks a minute, but you can whine about that too.
Here's a wacky idea, rather than just rebroadcasting network crap, why don't local affiliates actually produce quality programming of their own that they could sell on the iTunes video service. Believe it or not they used to do this sort of thing back in the day. Oh wait, that would require them to work, which is much harder than sitting on your ass and making a lot of money by squatting on publicly owned airwaves.
(as opposed to being a moderately pathetic one) I might think about shelling out 5.5 Kilobux for one of these ugly POS costumes, especially since they would probably stretch over my decidedly non-heroic beer gut and child-bearing hips (which, since I'm a man are not a good
thing to have). But why do that when for a few K more I could (if I were totally pathetic instead of being only moderately pathetic) buy a Real Doll? That would be a lot more fun than a badly crocheted Spiderman costume.
good thing, especially since Sun is not going to fuck with StorageTek, they're going to run it as a separate division of the company and start selling StorageTek storage products with Sun servers and close out Sun's line of storage products (which were just rebranded from Hitachi and other vendors anyway). Sun's storage offerings were overpriced and underwhelming, with StorageTek in house they have a good thing becuase regardless of what platform wins out in the future (Linux, Solaris, Solaris x86, Windoze, Plan 9) people are going to need lots and lots of storage space for their pr0n, warez and MP3, oops, I mean corporate data. Now if Sun can only get rid of the shit ugly purple and grey color scheme they have on the Sparc boxen they might be able to stage a huge comeback.
Well you probably don't have much experience with pot addicts. I have seen some friends of mine who started smoking when we were about 14 and kept doing it everyday for years. Now they suffer from very short attention span and sometimes go through very miserable times when they don't have immediate access to pot.
Maybe these guys are such a bunch of drugged out losers because they're your friends. Have you ever considered that disturbing hypothesis? Or maybe they've always been losers and you just hang out with losers. Anyways let me clue you in on something, your anecdotes are not data, they're anecdotes. Your argument against marijuana is fundamentally retarded, it's would be like me arguing against beer and wine because I know a bunch of guys who started drinking in their teens and did it every day for the last 20 years or so and who have fucked up their lives. That's them, not me or most other people who know when to stop drinking. You have a bunch of loser, doper friends. Big fucking deal.
Because it *does* give addiction: but it takes a lot of usage to reach such extremes. So, of course it's a whole different world compared to heroin, coke, etc., but saying that the "evil associated" with smoking pot are nothing is simply false.
No one was saying that the evils associated with pot don't exist. However if you're trying to sell the War on Some Drugs as a societal policy designed to reduce the costs to society of drug usage and addiction then spending a lot of time and money trying to get people to stop smoking dope is a waste because it is far less harmful, psychologically and physiologically than alcohol, which is legal, widely available and advertised or heroin, cocaine or crystal meth or tobacco.
Alcohol can be dangerous, as well, I agree on this. But 100 stoners driving are *bound* to have accidents because their reflexes are so slow. So I say, do as you like with pot and everything else, but don't feel the need to justify yourself by bashing other stuff and pretending it has no effect. Because 1. you're lying, 2. you're implicitly admitting you feel guilty. Otherwise, why would you be justifying yourself?
Why the fuck do you get your panties in such a bunch about people who are smoking marijuana and who are not harming anyone but themselves (and not harming themselves all that much at that)? What exactly is your problem Mr. Buzzkill? Personally I agree with the first poster, a 100 stoned hippies driving at 35 MPH is a lot less dangerous than my old boss who used to drink a couple of pints of malt liquor while driving home from work. Or the hordes of idiots who take legally prescribed painkillers such as Oxycontin or Percoset and then get behind the wheel of a car, or all of the people who take Benadryl for their allergies and then drive (here's an interesting fact that I know from personal experience. What drug do they like to use in hospitals to knock patients out when they can't sleep? It's not an opiate, or a benzodiazepene, nope, it's a 50mg dose of Benadryl.
I don't think anyone here feels guilty about their use of marijuana, it's just that they like to beat down assholes like you who post WoSD bullshit and stories about how you have a bunch of lame, dickhead friends who smoke a lot of dope and have wasted their lives.
the American educational system. Require that all teachers, all professors at public Universities, all elected officials and all appointed judicial offcicials send their kids to public schools for K-12 education. No more Bill Clinton and Al Gore going to Washington D.C and sending their kids off to private schools (Sidwell Friends, St. Albans) that are whiter than the Klan rallies that Al's daddy used to attend. No more Democratic politicians taking fuckloads of money from the teachers unions and then showing what they really think by sending their little darlings off to private schools, and if you're a public school teacher then you shouldn't have any right to your job if you're sending your kid to a private school, by doing so you're admitting that you're doing a shitty job. Quick, dirty and easy to implement. I'm not saying that this would fix all of the problems with our educational system, but I see no reason why our public servants should have the option of opting out of the public education system that we pay for. Let them start eating their own dog food as well as forcing it on the rest of us.
Okay, now with this issue there might be an exception here, but there is a reason we don't have a true democracy in the United States: people are stupid. That's why we pick representatives to do the voting for us. It's not because it would be inconvenient to have a popular vote on every issue, it's because the framers were smart enough not to trust the public with such power.
This is one of those memes that has been repeated so many times that people just nod their heads to it and go "Uh huh", even though, upon examination, it's a total load of shit, what I like to call "crapthink". Let's consider this meme, we the people are supposedly too stupid to understand the issues, so we select representatives who are smart enough to understand the issues and vote wisely on them. Sounds kind of reasonable, if you don't think about it and just choke it down, but if you think about it one question arises, namely if the people don't understand the issues then how can they understand if the representatives they elect understand the issues? Think about it.
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It does not mention obvious military applications for the discovery.
Hordes of fearless mice attacking our enemies? With lasers on their heads perhaps?
Hey! I didn't rent Mona Lisa Smile. It was Mona Lisa's Pearl Necklace.
Do it damn you! Do it. Man, you've managed to combine lame patents with a riff on the DMCA and the grandfather paradox as applied to IP law. Brilliant.
O(e^(1.9229+O(1))*ln(n)^(1/3)*ln(ln(n))^(2/3))
This can be found numerous places on the web. So adding one bit to your RSA key does far, far less for you than adding one bit to symmetric cipher like AES. You can do the math yourself, but you'll find that you need to add >>1 bits to an RSA key to double its strength.
How much longer would it take to break a 1024 bit cypher using this method? I can't get bc to do the math for me.
Of course given the stupidity and greed of the **AAs it would not surprise me to see them attempt to crush BT either by going after Bram Cohen or by having their bought and paid for congresscritters write an exceptionally broad addendum to the DMCA that would ban any development or distribution of P2P software. Of course the inevitable consequences of such a ban will be disastrous, but they'll take several election cycles to materialize, which is far beyond the horizon of the aforementioned congresscritters.
Hey Mr. Conservatard guy, what other "history corrections" would you like to give us while you're at it. Perhaps the Holocaust never happened. Perhaps George W. Bush actually served in Vietnam and won the Congressional Medal of Honor. Perhaps slavery wasn't such a bad thing after all. Perhaps America never landed a man on the moon. What other inconvenient truths might be airbrushed out or deleted with Photoshop whilst you're running around and "correcting" history. Ya know, Joe Stalin was really big on "correcting" history, and given the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the American right it's no surprise to me that a self-identified American conservative such as yourself would be taking a page out of his book.
You put a guy on mars, let him walk around, and return all for just 20 Million. Now that would make your point.
What NASA does is expensive, and new.
No, what NASAs manned spaceflight program does is simply expensive. How much new technology and scientific knowledge have we received from ISS? Nothing, zip, nada, fuck-all, it's Skylab, rev 2, but with massive cost overruns. How much new technology and scientific knowledge have we received from the Space Shuttle program? Nothing, zip, nada, fuck-all. What did we get from the X-33 program? Nothing, Lockheed never even flew a single piece of hardware. Hell it was cheaper to launch Saturn V's than it is to launch the Space Shuttle, and the Saturn Vs could take us to the moon, the Shuttle can take us to low earth orbit with a two percent chance that we aren't going to get our astronauts back. How much new technology was developed in the two years that NASA spent between the loss of Columbia and the launch of Discovery? Oh wow, perhaps they might have developed some sort of exciting technology to make styrofoam stick to the ET. Boy, that's something to write home about. And what is NASA talking about replacing the disastrous Shuttle program with, well they're looking at using boosters derived from Shuttle technology, wow, that's new, 30 year old technology in different launch configurations, it's marginally better than what we have now and keeps the dollars flowing to Lockheed and Boeing, but don't fool yourself into thinking that it does a damned thing to further manned space exploration.
NASA's manned program hasn't been worth a shit since they let Skylab fall out of the sky. We've wasted 30 fucking years with the Shuttle program and billions with ISS and we've gone nowhere new and gotten nothing worthwhile from these programs.
to compare what they did, to what NASA does is just stupid.
Yeah, really, it's stupid. 20 million is what NASA pays for six weeks worth of drinking water on ISS. Designing, building and testing a successful sub-orbital spacecraft for 20 million is totally stupid, why do that when you could spend it on bottled water?
The guy who wrote this is full of shit, and he's also the author if nano, a pico competitor. PINE/PICO were developed by the University of Washington, the chances of the UW implementing the kind of restrictive licensing that he refers to are slim to none. It's pure FUD, only this time from someone in the OSS community.
It was comic in its uselessness.
And here you are, posting to /. about a site where discussions quickly degenerate into flamewars and which is comic in its uselessness. You sir have a finely honed sense of irony. I salute you.
Here's a wacky idea, rather than just rebroadcasting network crap, why don't local affiliates actually produce quality programming of their own that they could sell on the iTunes video service. Believe it or not they used to do this sort of thing back in the day. Oh wait, that would require them to work, which is much harder than sitting on your ass and making a lot of money by squatting on publicly owned airwaves.
good thing, especially since Sun is not going to fuck with StorageTek, they're going to run it as a separate division of the company and start selling StorageTek storage products with Sun servers and close out Sun's line of storage products (which were just rebranded from Hitachi and other vendors anyway). Sun's storage offerings were overpriced and underwhelming, with StorageTek in house they have a good thing becuase regardless of what platform wins out in the future (Linux, Solaris, Solaris x86, Windoze, Plan 9) people are going to need lots and lots of storage space for their pr0n, warez and MP3, oops, I mean corporate data. Now if Sun can only get rid of the shit ugly purple and grey color scheme they have on the Sparc boxen they might be able to stage a huge comeback.
Maybe these guys are such a bunch of drugged out losers because they're your friends. Have you ever considered that disturbing hypothesis? Or maybe they've always been losers and you just hang out with losers. Anyways let me clue you in on something, your anecdotes are not data, they're anecdotes. Your argument against marijuana is fundamentally retarded, it's would be like me arguing against beer and wine because I know a bunch of guys who started drinking in their teens and did it every day for the last 20 years or so and who have fucked up their lives. That's them, not me or most other people who know when to stop drinking. You have a bunch of loser, doper friends. Big fucking deal.
Because it *does* give addiction: but it takes a lot of usage to reach such extremes. So, of course it's a whole different world compared to heroin, coke, etc., but saying that the "evil associated" with smoking pot are nothing is simply false.
No one was saying that the evils associated with pot don't exist. However if you're trying to sell the War on Some Drugs as a societal policy designed to reduce the costs to society of drug usage and addiction then spending a lot of time and money trying to get people to stop smoking dope is a waste because it is far less harmful, psychologically and physiologically than alcohol, which is legal, widely available and advertised or heroin, cocaine or crystal meth or tobacco.
Alcohol can be dangerous, as well, I agree on this. But 100 stoners driving are *bound* to have accidents because their reflexes are so slow. So I say, do as you like with pot and everything else, but don't feel the need to justify yourself by bashing other stuff and pretending it has no effect. Because 1. you're lying, 2. you're implicitly admitting you feel guilty. Otherwise, why would you be justifying yourself?
Why the fuck do you get your panties in such a bunch about people who are smoking marijuana and who are not harming anyone but themselves (and not harming themselves all that much at that)? What exactly is your problem Mr. Buzzkill? Personally I agree with the first poster, a 100 stoned hippies driving at 35 MPH is a lot less dangerous than my old boss who used to drink a couple of pints of malt liquor while driving home from work. Or the hordes of idiots who take legally prescribed painkillers such as Oxycontin or Percoset and then get behind the wheel of a car, or all of the people who take Benadryl for their allergies and then drive (here's an interesting fact that I know from personal experience. What drug do they like to use in hospitals to knock patients out when they can't sleep? It's not an opiate, or a benzodiazepene, nope, it's a 50mg dose of Benadryl.
I don't think anyone here feels guilty about their use of marijuana, it's just that they like to beat down assholes like you who post WoSD bullshit and stories about how you have a bunch of lame, dickhead friends who smoke a lot of dope and have wasted their lives.
Shouldn't that be "No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Doesn't support Ogg Vorbis. Lame."?
This is one of those memes that has been repeated so many times that people just nod their heads to it and go "Uh huh", even though, upon examination, it's a total load of shit, what I like to call "crapthink". Let's consider this meme, we the people are supposedly too stupid to understand the issues, so we select representatives who are smart enough to understand the issues and vote wisely on them. Sounds kind of reasonable, if you don't think about it and just choke it down, but if you think about it one question arises, namely if the people don't understand the issues then how can they understand if the representatives they elect understand the issues? Think about it.