Now I am fucked off. Nothing is worse than waking up one day and finding out that your favourite unix tool is written by an immature wanker with no more right to live on God's clean Earth than a weasel.
The real truth is that there are 2 kinds of slashdot visitors:
1) does not read story, maybe skims top of page, starts to post inane crap
2) goes off to read story, slashdotting it, then either: 2a) reads story, looks back at/. postings, sees they are all inane crap from people who haven't read the story and doesn't bother to post 2b) doesn't get to read story because of slashdotting so reads/. postings. Even having not read the linked story, can tell this is all inane crap from people who haven't read the story but are posting anyway.
ok, so I'm really tired here at 5am and this actually believe it or not made sense (at least to me) when I started typing it.
"But what if someone wrote a file sharing program, but split it in two seperate pieces that on their own do nothing, but when you combine them (copy A + B C) it becomes the final program?"
Now there's an idea! Split it into 9 parts and scatter it throughout the known universe.
"The Quest for the p2p client of 9 parts. An adventure for 4-6 characters of level 10-14".
"You see, our underground train system is half the age of your whole damn country, and has inspired systems like it the world over and still it carrys more people than any other."
Sorry to burst your bubble, since I am in the UK too and was enjoying your heated response to the obvious troll above, but the Tokyo underground system carries more people daily than the London Underground does.
Mod me down for I am wrong! Apparently the AI arctic warfare in 7.62 has a max range of 800m, and even in larger cal can only go to 1100m. This is the "last 400m" problem in modern telecommunication sniping.
I am now looking into larger calibre rifles, like.50. Will update you when I find one that can go the full 1500m...
A c/c++ decompiler that totally worked would be the Holy Grail of crackers. Unfortunately it is actually impossible to get everything back because lots of info is lost on compilation.
Nevertheless there are tools out there that attempt to decompile programs; I think of them more as ways of making assembly more readable.
Note, a lot of them wouldn't work on hand-written assembly, because they rely on knowledge of how certain compilers compile various things- e.g. there was a Delphi decompile available.
" The intention here is that this will be for legal content, like software updates, legal music previews, not anywhere-anytime warez distrubution system. You stick with your donkeys."
Hahahah. I laugh at you.
user1: did you get that critical update for software package xyz ? user2: no! what time was it on? user1: half six. user2: pm? user1: no, am. The dude's in Finland after all. user2: so did you record it? user1: nah, I was real low on drive space at the time, and I don't use xyz much. user2: this sucks, now i'm all not critically updated! user1: relax, if nothing exciting happens next week there'll probably be a re-run.
It turns p2p file downloading into a "tv-like" experience where you have to be online at the right time to get the file.
Sure, you could probably script it so you get the files, but that makes it like tivo where you can watch programmes when you want but you have to remember to set it up so it records it in the first place.
We have evolved beyond that. Now, with p2p you can search for and download whatever you want, when you want. OK, so someone still has to be sharing it, which is less likely with older stuff, but there are starting to be Farenheit-451-like sharers out there (myself included) who are keeping one thing (e.g. a favourite anime series) alive by always sharing it.
Also, there is a significant barrier to adoption of a new p2p-like app. You have your p2p working fine, and downloading well, then you are expected to start using a new one. You don't know how it works yet, let alone how to optimize it or where to get what you want; you know that everyone else faces the same hurdles so there won't be much content for a while, if at all.
This wouldn't be so bad if you could try out a new p2p app while using an old one, but you really need to dedicate all your bandwidth to a program to make the most of it.
At the moment emule is where it's at (at least for me), and I won't stop using it unless everyone else does and the sources dry up.
" I've been a fan of anime since the days of Mazinger and would be happy to see more product, even if not all of it is to my taste."
So fire up emule and look on sharereactor. These days you actually can find EVERY anime released in Japan if you look hard enough.
By the way, I have never believed that 90% of anime is crap. Now that I can see all of it, I know that's not true. It's more like 10% of anime is not to my taste, but good, and 90% is great.
Manga has a larger perecentage of stuff that's not to my taste, but that's the proving ground for concepts, most of the best get made into anime later.
But right now there has never been a better time to be into anime because you can have it all- anime overload!
" Of course you all know that there is also a live action version of La Blue Girl, don't you?"
Purlease, the acting in LA Blue Girl is abysmal and there's even fanservice tentacles.
For an anime to live action conversion where the j-drama is EVEN BETTER than the anime, check out Great Teacher Onizuka, which is a masterpiece. OK, so it's just a high-school romance/comedy with moral values thrust at you, but it still really rules because it's so well done.
" I hate it when people post spoilers before I've read the book!"
Suck on this!
The animal on the cover of HTTP: The Definitive Guide is a thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus), common to central North America. True to its name, the thirteen-lined ground squirrel has thirteen stripes with rows of light spots that run the length of its back. Its color pattern blends into its surroundings, protecting it from predators. Thirteen-lined ground squirrels are members of the squirrel family, which includes chipmunks, ground squirrels, tree squirrels, prairie dogs, and woodchucks. They are similar in size to the eastern chipmunk but smaller than the common gray squirrel, averaging about 11 inches in length (including a 5-6 inch tail).
Thirteen-lined ground squirrels go into hibernation in October and emerge in late March or early April. Each female usually produces one litter of 7-10 young each May. The young leave the burrows at four to five weeks of age and are fully grown at six weeks. Ground squirrels prefer open areas with short grass and well-drained sandy or loamy soils for burrows, and they avoid wooded areas-mowed lawns, golf courses, and parks are common habitats.
Ground squirrels can cause problems when they create burrows, dig up newly planted seeds, and damage vegetable gardens. However, they are important prey to several predators, including badgers, coyotes, hawks, weasels, and various snakes, and they benefit humans directly by feeding on many harmful weeds, weed seeds, and insects.
Slashdot Mirror
Great, a new game you can't solve if you're a smoker. What kind of message is this sending to the kids?
graspee
Since you're clearly as mad as a mongoose, I'll bid you farewell.
graspee
Now I am fucked off. Nothing is worse than waking up one day and finding out that your favourite unix tool is written by an immature wanker with no more right to live on God's clean Earth than a weasel.
graspee
The real truth is that there are 2 kinds of slashdot visitors:
/. postings, sees they are all inane crap from people who haven't read the story and doesn't bother to post /. postings. Even having not read the linked story, can tell this is all inane crap from people who haven't read the story but are posting anyway.
1) does not read story, maybe skims top of page, starts to post inane crap
2) goes off to read story, slashdotting it, then either:
2a) reads story, looks back at
2b) doesn't get to read story because of slashdotting so reads
ok, so I'm really tired here at 5am and this actually believe it or not made sense (at least to me) when I started typing it.
graspee
I'm surprised you didn't write the link to the site more like this in order to get your 80 clicks and earn your free immortality device!
;)
Interesting site anyway. Heh, be careful not to wear your "immortality rings" when fitting hard drives or handling floppies, DATs or ZIP discs...
graspee
When people start to exhibit the ability to really fuck up your world like this... ...it's time to send in Agent Smith.
graspee
"But what if someone wrote a file sharing program, but split it in two seperate pieces that on their own do nothing, but when you combine them (copy A + B C) it becomes the final program?"
Now there's an idea! Split it into 9 parts and scatter it throughout the known universe.
"The Quest for the p2p client of 9 parts. An adventure for 4-6 characters of level 10-14".
graspee
It used to be the case that an English billion was a million million, while a US billion was a thousand million. Now they're both a thousand million.
graspee
"You see, our underground train system is half the age of your whole damn country, and has inspired systems like it the world over and still it carrys more people than any other."
Sorry to burst your bubble, since I am in the UK too and was enjoying your heated response to the obvious troll above, but the Tokyo underground system carries more people daily than the London Underground does.
graspee
Ah! The Accuracy International AW50, which uses massive .50 cal has a max effective range of 2000m!
I just thought that a British rifle should be used- it's more appropriate; support local industry and all that.
Apologies for splattering this forum with my gun geekiness- you may now mod me into oblivion and beyond.
graspee
Mod me down for I am wrong! Apparently the AI arctic warfare in 7.62 has a max range of 800m, and even in larger cal can only go to 1100m. This is the "last 400m" problem in modern telecommunication sniping.
.50. Will update you when I find one that can go the full 1500m...
I am now looking into larger calibre rifles, like
graspee
I live in York, UK, and I believe the Accuracy International Artic Warfare (Super) Magnum sniper rifle in 7.62mm could bring one down.
Heh heh.
graspee
A c/c++ decompiler that totally worked would be the Holy Grail of crackers. Unfortunately it is actually impossible to get everything back because lots of info is lost on compilation.
Nevertheless there are tools out there that attempt to decompile programs; I think of them more as ways of making assembly more readable.
Note, a lot of them wouldn't work on hand-written assembly, because they rely on knowledge of how certain compilers compile various things- e.g. there was a Delphi decompile available.
graspee
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grasqee
Are you suggesting that your sig is offensive on purpose, not suggestive of your real views, in order to get people to turn off sig displays?
Interesting idea.
graspee
Your interesting and intriguing post appears to be spoiled by a xenophobic, idiotic, nationalistic piece of crap sig. Did you step in it by accident?
graspee
Heinlein was an anarchist survivalist nutcase- and observe! He didn't even manage to survive!
graspee
" The intention here is that this will be for legal content, like software updates, legal music previews, not anywhere-anytime warez distrubution system. You stick with your donkeys."
Hahahah. I laugh at you.
user1: did you get that critical update for software package xyz ?
user2: no! what time was it on?
user1: half six.
user2: pm?
user1: no, am. The dude's in Finland after all.
user2: so did you record it?
user1: nah, I was real low on drive space at the time, and I don't use xyz much.
user2: this sucks, now i'm all not critically updated!
user1: relax, if nothing exciting happens next week there'll probably be a re-run.
graspee
This is a retrograde step.
It turns p2p file downloading into a "tv-like" experience where you have to be online at the right time to get the file.
Sure, you could probably script it so you get the files, but that makes it like tivo where you can watch programmes when you want but you have to remember to set it up so it records it in the first place.
We have evolved beyond that. Now, with p2p you can search for and download whatever you want, when you want. OK, so someone still has to be sharing it, which is less likely with older stuff, but there are starting to be Farenheit-451-like sharers out there (myself included) who are keeping one thing (e.g. a favourite anime series) alive by always sharing it.
Also, there is a significant barrier to adoption of a new p2p-like app. You have your p2p working fine, and downloading well, then you are expected to start using a new one. You don't know how it works yet, let alone how to optimize it or where to get what you want; you know that everyone else faces the same hurdles so there won't be much content for a while, if at all.
This wouldn't be so bad if you could try out a new p2p app while using an old one, but you really need to dedicate all your bandwidth to a program to make the most of it.
At the moment emule is where it's at (at least for me), and I won't stop using it unless everyone else does and the sources dry up.
graspee
" I've been a fan of anime since the days of Mazinger and would be happy to see more product, even if not all of it is to my taste."
So fire up emule and look on sharereactor. These days you actually can find EVERY anime released in Japan if you look hard enough.
By the way, I have never believed that 90% of anime is crap. Now that I can see all of it, I know that's not true. It's more like 10% of anime is not to my taste, but good, and 90% is great.
Manga has a larger perecentage of stuff that's not to my taste, but that's the proving ground for concepts, most of the best get made into anime later.
But right now there has never been a better time to be into anime because you can have it all- anime overload!
graspee
" Of course you all know that there is also a live action version of La Blue Girl, don't you?"
Purlease, the acting in LA Blue Girl is abysmal and there's even fanservice tentacles.
For an anime to live action conversion where the j-drama is EVEN BETTER than the anime, check out Great Teacher Onizuka, which is a masterpiece. OK, so it's just a high-school romance/comedy with moral values thrust at you, but it still really rules because it's so well done.
graspee
ensign: Captain, we have spoilers off the port bow!
riker: red alert!
picard: what is their status, mr. data?
data: They appear to be attempting to spoil the plot, sir.
picard: tactical analysis, mr. worf.
worf: captain, they are charging moderations! They are at + 5 !!!
captain: ready all phaser banks and photon torpedos, maximum yield, minimum spread. Fire!
graspee
" I hate it when people post spoilers before I've read the book!"
Suck on this!
The animal on the cover of HTTP: The Definitive Guide is a thirteen-lined ground squirrel (Spermophilus tridecemlineatus), common to central North America. True to its name, the thirteen-lined ground squirrel has thirteen stripes with rows of light spots that run the length of its back. Its color pattern blends into its surroundings, protecting it from predators. Thirteen-lined ground squirrels are members of the squirrel family, which includes chipmunks, ground squirrels, tree squirrels, prairie dogs, and woodchucks. They are similar in size to the eastern chipmunk but smaller than the common gray squirrel, averaging about 11 inches in length (including a 5-6 inch tail).
Thirteen-lined ground squirrels go into hibernation in October and emerge in late March or early April. Each female usually produces one litter of 7-10 young each May. The young leave the burrows at four to five weeks of age and are fully grown at six weeks. Ground squirrels prefer open areas with short grass and well-drained sandy or loamy soils for burrows, and they avoid wooded areas-mowed lawns, golf courses, and parks are common habitats.
Ground squirrels can cause problems when they create burrows, dig up newly planted seeds, and damage vegetable gardens. However, they are important prey to several predators, including badgers, coyotes, hawks, weasels, and various snakes, and they benefit humans directly by feeding on many harmful weeds, weed seeds, and insects.
graspee
...I'm just bot-camping the sewer system.
graspee
Thanks very much- you rock!
Of course I maybe could have got frustrated enough, done a search and found it myself- but you put the link there right in front of me!
Thanks. I am going to check out the other extensions now.
graspee