fact of life: nearly everything on modern farms for the past several centuries is GM. all domesticated animals, for example, are vastly different from their wild ancestors. nearly all major crops were GM before DNA was ever discovered.
Yeah, but some people seem to have the feeling that it is safer to use vi or emacs to write a text than it is to use a tiny tiny tiny electromagnet and try to manually flip the bits on the HD into the right position.
The same people who have a ton of money to blow on the endless and for the most part terrible games that the video game industry releases, are also the same people who view the other sex as objects.
You mean the way to get rich is to view women as objects? Didn't know it was THAT easy:)
Recently I had a 4 line script that helped me reconfigure a bunch of workstations. He wanted in redone in perl, so a 4 line hack became a 50 line perl script.
I'm not fluent in perl, but if it has an exec function, i think there is a very simple solution to your problem:)
he's also the genius behind Desktop Manager, a virtual desktops manager for Mac.
Wow. A real genius.
Seriously, virtual desktops are a great thing, and retrofitting them on a system that doesn't support them "out of the box" is probably very hard and frustrating work.
Kudos to everyone who does this, but "genious" describes people who invent concepts like that, not those who port them.
For once, virus authors will have to make *real* exploits (rather than take advantage of Outlooks click-and-run garbage) and spam people will have to pursue legit forms of mass mailing.
Worms and Viruses will spread just like they do now. Maybe a little itsy weeny tiny bit slower, but i doubt anyone would even notice. Look how they spread now: Machine (A) is infected, sends 100 mails (or however much machines are in the adress book) and infects 50 more machines (B). now we have 51 machines infected, with 50 machines sending out 100 mails each, each infecting 50 more machines (C), so we have 2551 infected machines, 2500 infecting 50 more each which leaves us with 127551 infected machines after three "generations". It doesn't matter if it takes a second per mail or a minute (which would already be way too long for the method to be acceptable): as more machines get infected the infection gets more parallel and the artificial delay shows less and less influence on the speed of spreading.
Once the worms are in place and the armies of mindless ownz0red machines are at their ownz0rer's command, there's no stopping the spam either.
I do know how public/private key encryption works!
You do, sorry for assuming otherwise.
Obviously at some stage the file has to be decrypted, and if those who want to prevent copying have control - technical, legal or both - over the computers that do this, they can successfully access the cleartext content.
If they only have control over the p2p client computers, they can be tricked by only storing encrypted files on those computers and do the encryption/decryption on separate ones.
but you would have to have some way of communicating the 'secret' be it an encryption key
No.
1a. Alice generates random public/private key pair. 2a. Alice sends Bob the public key (unencrypted). 1b. Bob generates public/private key pair. 2b. Bob sends Alice his public key (unencrypted).
3. When Bob sends data to Alice, he encrypts it with her public key. It can only be decrypted with her private key which was NEVER sent across the wire.
4. When Alice sends data to Bob, she encrypts it with his public key. It can only be decrypted with his private key which was NEVER sent across the wire.
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Yeah, but some people seem to have the feeling that it is safer to use vi or emacs to write a text than it is to use a tiny tiny tiny electromagnet and try to manually flip the bits on the HD into the right position.
You mean the way to get rich is to view women as objects? Didn't know it was THAT easy
if only the terrorists would have practiced THAT one a bit more often
Nono... in soviet russia, hot grits imagine beowulf portmans of PROFIT!!
Actually it is a metadistro, hence a potential starting point for a [games-oriented] distro.
Everyone's joking and everything, but have you read the books? They're singing half of the time anyways!
Lookie lookie here.
Of course, the musical producers will cut out all the original songs and the whole thing will be 3.5 hours of bad music and worse dwarf-tossing jokes.
I'm not fluent in perl, but if it has an exec function, i think there is a very simple solution to your problem
Yes, but only if it were Sony Playstation 2s.
Ah, come on. We both know that the fact that you have to rely on a dictionary to prove your point only shows that you are wrong. ;)
Wow. A real genius.
Seriously, virtual desktops are a great thing, and retrofitting them on a system that doesn't support them "out of the box" is probably very hard and frustrating work.
Kudos to everyone who does this, but "genious" describes people who invent concepts like that, not those who port them.
why do i find the "funny" mods insightful and the "insightful" funny?
Yeah, i wrote a paper. And then it went beeep, beep, beep, beep. Then the paper was gone. Bummer.
Worms and Viruses will spread just like they do now. Maybe a little itsy weeny tiny bit slower, but i doubt anyone would even notice. Look how they spread now: Machine (A) is infected, sends 100 mails (or however much machines are in the adress book) and infects 50 more machines (B). now we have 51 machines infected, with 50 machines sending out 100 mails each, each infecting 50 more machines (C), so we have 2551 infected machines, 2500 infecting 50 more each which leaves us with 127551 infected machines after three "generations". It doesn't matter if it takes a second per mail or a minute (which would already be way too long for the method to be acceptable): as more machines get infected the infection gets more parallel and the artificial delay shows less and less influence on the speed of spreading.
Once the worms are in place and the armies of mindless ownz0red machines are at their ownz0rer's command, there's no stopping the spam either.
You do, sorry for assuming otherwise.
Obviously at some stage the file has to be decrypted, and if those who want to prevent copying have control - technical, legal or both - over the computers that do this, they can successfully access the cleartext content.
If they only have control over the p2p client computers, they can be tricked by only storing encrypted files on those computers and do the encryption/decryption on separate ones.
No.
1a. Alice generates random public/private key pair.
2a. Alice sends Bob the public key (unencrypted).
1b. Bob generates public/private key pair.
2b. Bob sends Alice his public key (unencrypted).
3. When Bob sends data to Alice, he encrypts it with her public key. It can only be decrypted with her private key which was NEVER sent across the wire.
4. When Alice sends data to Bob, she encrypts it with his public key. It can only be decrypted with his private key which was NEVER sent across the wire.
5. no PROFIT!! for teh 3v1l R1AA!!111
this is just so asking for it...
In Soviet Russia, Monitor looks at Legislators.
Given the quality of spelling on slashdot, are you sure you haven't just mistyped XFree86 as "XXXFree69"? :p
Don't worry, on the internet nobody knows you're a penguin.
SCO: "Somebody set up us the lawsuit."
IBM: "You don't know what you doing."
10% of the mod points fell into a black hole.
wtf... flamebait?? :)
I was being FUNNY you INSENSITIVE CLODS!
Shut up! Who do you think you are? David Lynch?
That must be why dictators always kill those who want to erect statues of them or name streets, places or cities after them.
because 11 / 3 < 11
and stuck them into Uranus.
Would you like a goatse.cx link with that?