only if they have blueballs. of course anyone knowing how to do this is likely a geek, and therefore suffering a serious case, so this physical form of 'bluejacking' might be appropriate...
better that they should buy the same drive, but late in its product cycle, when most of the bugs have been worked out (better code, consistent media, reliability return info folded back into the product... those kinds of things.)
If MS were excluded from using some of Eolass' patents, it would probably lead to a DOJ investigation into Eolas. assuming that didn't happen, it might make sense for MS to spin off IE, which would be a very interesting move, and do much of the invigoration that this guy is talking about.
He may have thought that he randomly chose 42... but *we* know that there are powers beyond his comprehension that willed him to do it... c'mon, get with the spirit of things!
Since everyone is updating their computers will there now be either one of two realities?: -A long lag before another 'big' virus/worm -Will the Internet now run more effeciently? there must be quite a few fixes that would improve network performance, and I'm sure that these virii/worms have been a low level hit for some time now. Since word is getting out, and everyone is fixing what has needed to be fixed for a while, shouldn't we eventually be better off than we were?
here in Colorado, we have some excellent tours of some of the bigger breweries around, Budweiser and Coors. Better yet, make a side trip to New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins, now a contract brewer, they are large (not as huge as the others)and very automated, a short but very interesting tour.
Get tours of any manufacturing you can, Jelly Belly has a tour, Hershey, some of the automakers have tours.
Oh... we have mountains too. not super geeky, but who could resist a ride up to 14,110 ft! (must be done in the summer of course!)
and called it MacDonalds, I would be prepared for a legal battle, and justifiably so. I don't like MS, but I think that this case is borderline enough not to be frivolous as you so imply.
I know that Tivo will simply be using it to make money... Gates might be using it to leverage into other markets, like the medical or food industries. (microchips and salsa anyone?!)
One is free market, one is not. one is Orwellian and one is not.
I highly doubt they are trying to use media left over from pre-GMR days...May as well be a century in disk drive years... Maybe they were having screening issues, but it has nothing to do with GMR heads!!
Keep in mind that since SCSI is aimed at a higher speed, there are other problems to deal with, things like disk flutter (caused by the high speed) which casues the designers of high speed drives to use smaller disks (3.5 inch form factor, 2.5" disks)... to fit the same capacity in the drive, you need to stack the disks higher and higher, this gets expensive, as does going to to a full-height form factor instead of a half height. Of course there is more to it than that...
Seems to me that the logical thing to do is integrate a firewall option (receive "fixitworm=on")so that people that were security conscious (and were actually aware of such a feature) could turn it off and the worm wouldn't go there again, but ignorant people/sysadmins wouldn't know to turn it off, (this of course would be the poorer sysadmins who have unpatched security holes) ergo the worm would only affect the unwatched servers, kind of like having a default fixit worm with the option of rejecting it if you are confident.
soon we will have to wear letters on our foreheads to identify ourselves in multi-user set-ups, collabarative efforts between two people with similar names might require different color letters, hence the scarlet letter...
In order to improve reaction times, Pilots (read: navigators) have been ordered into small chambers full of reaction enhancing drugs (read:spice) as seen in the movie (and book) Dune!
RE: Man. I should write a program in C that formats your HD after mailing itself to everyone in your outlook address book, and then I could be a famous virus writer too!
uh-oh, now the FBI is going to come looking for you the next time a virus comes out...
I could see the headlines now, "Hacker 'mindstrm' was arrested in an early morning raid, FBI points to incriminating posts on Hacker discussion group 'Slashdot'"
re: alter the virus to make the porn site the default page for the browser, not just add a desktop link.
I would think that if the virus worked, you would bring down the server incredibly quickly (as millions would automatically go to this sight as soon as they got this virus)
If I had to guess, this is referenceing Quintas/Seagates optically assisted winchester technology. supposedly not far from market, but reguler servo tech is doing just fine, ergo, no need for it *yet*, but it is waiting in the wings
(in a nutshell: OAW is essentially a little laser at the end of the servo assembly which can heat up a specific area, changing the coercivity of just that spot, rather than the huge area that a magnetic pulse would have changed)
I don't see any reason that (given a fast enough computer) you couldn't have real time interpolation of a video image. in video, since each frame is a seperate picture, what is to stop you from stitching the pictures as they come out... you may need a couple of pictures from around the bject initially, but once you have the intital object, you could move the 3d image as the image in the video moves just by tacking some prominent points on the original 3d model to the video.
for example: you create the three d image (say of a head) then you video the image... your incredibly fast (say an octium 6000mhz)looks at the image each frame and updates the movement of three d object relative to the change in the video... as each eye moves relative to each other, you move/rotate the three d object relative to those two points, the same thing might apply to a jint except you would need at least two points on each joint sorry I can't explain it better, but give enough speed, I see no problem creating a virtual image given enough speed...
Slashdot Mirror
only if they have blueballs. of course anyone knowing how to do this is likely a geek, and therefore suffering a serious case, so this physical form of 'bluejacking' might be appropriate...
why bother... you'd go through all of the effort just to have someone say it was stolen.
better that they should buy the same drive, but late in its product cycle, when most of the bugs have been worked out (better code, consistent media, reliability return info folded back into the product... those kinds of things.)
The Mirror
If MS were excluded from using some of Eolass' patents, it would probably lead to a DOJ investigation into Eolas. assuming that didn't happen, it might make sense for MS to spin off IE, which would be a very interesting move, and do much of the invigoration that this guy is talking about.
He may have thought that he randomly chose 42... but *we* know that there are powers beyond his comprehension that willed him to do it... c'mon, get with the spirit of things!
Since everyone is updating their computers will there now be either one of two realities?:
-A long lag before another 'big' virus/worm
-Will the Internet now run more effeciently? there must be quite a few fixes that would improve network performance, and I'm sure that these virii/worms have been a low level hit for some time now. Since word is getting out, and everyone is fixing what has needed to be fixed for a while, shouldn't we eventually be better off than we were?
When do we start shorting the stock? Should be any day now. And why does it keep going up? Speculation?
here in Colorado, we have some excellent tours of some of the bigger breweries around, Budweiser and Coors. Better yet, make a side trip to New Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins, now a contract brewer, they are large (not as huge as the others)and very automated, a short but very interesting tour.
Get tours of any manufacturing you can, Jelly Belly has a tour, Hershey, some of the automakers have tours.
Oh... we have mountains too. not super geeky, but who could resist a ride up to 14,110 ft! (must be done in the summer of course!)
maybe its just me, but clustermatic comments will never take the place of Beowulf cluster comments on slashdot.
and called it MacDonalds, I would be prepared for a legal battle, and justifiably so. I don't like MS, but I think that this case is borderline enough not to be frivolous as you so imply.
'a breakup is a death sentence for a corporation'
and this is why Exxon and Mobil are such minor companies today... uh-huh. Not to mention AT&T...
and everyone who has posted on this thread!!
seibed
how about another hard drive?!
I know that Tivo will simply be using it to make money... Gates might be using it to leverage into other markets, like the medical or food industries. (microchips and salsa anyone?!)
One is free market, one is not. one is Orwellian and one is not.
subtle, but ever so important
I highly doubt they are trying to use media left over from pre-GMR days...May as well be a century in disk drive years... Maybe they were having screening issues, but it has nothing to do with GMR heads!!
seibed
Keep in mind that since SCSI is aimed at a higher speed, there are other problems to deal with, things like disk flutter (caused by the high speed) which casues the designers of high speed drives to use smaller disks (3.5 inch form factor, 2.5" disks)... to fit the same capacity in the drive, you need to stack the disks higher and higher, this gets expensive, as does going to to a full-height form factor instead of a half height. Of course there is more to it than that...
seibed
This definitely has been answered in other articles, though it'd take me an hour to dig up an old link.
Doesn't much of it boil down to "I can do/have done this better, and I can prove it!" sorts of sentiments?
Seems to me that the logical thing to do is integrate a firewall option (receive "fixitworm=on")so that people that were security conscious (and were actually aware of such a feature) could turn it off and the worm wouldn't go there again, but ignorant people/sysadmins wouldn't know to turn it off, (this of course would be the poorer sysadmins who have unpatched security holes) ergo the worm would only affect the unwatched servers, kind of like having a default fixit worm with the option of rejecting it if you are confident.
seibed
soon we will have to wear letters on our foreheads to identify ourselves in multi-user set-ups, collabarative efforts between two people with similar names might require different color letters, hence the scarlet letter...
Maybe Listers H was related to this...
In order to improve reaction times, Pilots (read: navigators) have been ordered into small chambers full of reaction enhancing drugs (read:spice) as seen in the movie (and book) Dune!
seibed
RE: Man. I should write a program in C that formats your HD after mailing itself to everyone in your outlook address book, and then I could be a famous virus writer too!
uh-oh, now the FBI is going to come looking for you the next time a virus comes out...
I could see the headlines now, "Hacker 'mindstrm' was arrested in an early morning raid, FBI points to incriminating posts on Hacker discussion group 'Slashdot'"
seibed
re: alter the virus to make the porn site the default page for the browser, not just add a desktop link.
I would think that if the virus worked, you would bring down the server incredibly quickly (as millions would automatically go to this sight as soon as they got this virus)
If I had to guess, this is referenceing Quintas/Seagates optically assisted winchester technology. supposedly not far from market, but reguler servo tech is doing just fine, ergo, no need for it *yet*, but it is waiting in the wings
(in a nutshell: OAW is essentially a little laser at the end of the servo assembly which can heat up a specific area, changing the coercivity of just that spot, rather than the huge area that a magnetic pulse would have changed)
I don't see any reason that (given a fast enough computer) you couldn't have real time interpolation of a video image. in video, since each frame is a seperate picture, what is to stop you from stitching the pictures as they come out... you may need a couple of pictures from around the bject initially, but once you have the intital object, you could move the 3d image as the image in the video moves just by tacking some prominent points on the original 3d model to the video.
for example: you create the three d image (say of a head) then you video the image... your incredibly fast (say an octium 6000mhz)looks at the image each frame and updates the movement of three d object relative to the change in the video... as each eye moves relative to each other, you move/rotate the three d object relative to those two points, the same thing might apply to a jint except you would need at least two points on each joint
sorry I can't explain it better, but give enough speed, I see no problem creating a virtual image given enough speed...
Edward