The internet being the dangerous place that it is (to those not seasoned to it), I've seen it happen many times. As such, I've seen it happen to me.
It has happened twice now that my personal info has been posted in a chat room or forum, that info gathered from either my name or simply what I've told about myself. Both times it has come to a personal threat, one way or another.
Simply put, use your personal information with caution. I still use my info without much worry just because I don't have much to lose, being a minor. Sometimes this can be quite difficult, however.
In these occasions, be prepared to get your hands dirty. I recall one instance where my IP was posted in a hackers chat room simply because I went in there to find out about any new exploits (I was doing a study). In instances like this the law is not going to interfere nor punish those who've commited cybercrimes simply because damage cannot be proven. Even legitimate business and users cannot prove damage without noteable expense.
Defend yourself accordingly, knowing the fact that the law cannot punish you for doing so if they are not first willing to punish the people who perpetrated the crime in the first place.
Same story, different spirit. iq in binary (Score:1) *Chuckle* Anonymous Coward (Score:0) *Go figure*
Same story, different spirit.
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Man Conquers Space
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Star Trek, Red Dward, and Star Wars is nothing but opera. Only the most pessimistic of people can even begin to tender the idea you just did. The people over in Australia are not about story telling, they're about realization. People may not realize it, but over the course of the past 50 years; we have accomplished what science fiction novels merely speculated about not as far back ago as the 1970's. Being only 16, I'm not as knowledgable about it as you elder slashdotters; but American and Russian accomplishments in space are more monumental than we realize. Being a firm believer in the theory that we actually did put a man on the moon; I am one to pay attention at the tremendous problems and obstacles that the folks at NASA and the Russian Cosmonauts ran into. These people are doing the same, but in a more intricate and viable manner. One that teaches others exactly what we are and have been capable of, as long as we put our heads together. One could argue that the step from putting a dog in space and a man on the moon is one so tremendous it makes the evolution of the internet look like nothing more than a grade school game of "Telephone."
Keep that in mind before you toss aside these people's efforts as nothing more than a redundancy.
I am going to make an educated guess when I say that 90% of you slashdotters have no idea how pocketed Denver is. I don't mean racially or financially, I mean in terms of broadband service. There are ALOT of situations where even a nextdoor neighbor of someone who could get DSL or Cable wasn't in the service area. As a matter of fact, my nextdoor neighbor is a good example.
Situations like that make consumers both frustrated and angry, Ricochet already has an advantage just because of the area of availability they'll have. Their prices as well, in Denver and surrounding areas I've heard of prices upwards of $200 a month for a 125kb/50kb service plan. Insane and unacceptable. Ricochet will be the pillar of healing light compared to Qwest and AT&T. One commercial and a couple of radio announcements and BOOM, Ricochet will provide 500 more jobless Coloradans with customer service jobs. My prediction is that they won't be able to produce the modems fast enough to serve all the customers they'll have.
The day will come when Ricochet is right next to Cricket in the Mini-Bell department. The day will also come when Qwest is right next to MCI in the ex-monopolite department as well. Their online and phone services are the only thing keeping them from financial trouble.
Exactly what they're talking about. I remember playing CS and getting ripped on because everyone was absolutely sure I was using an aim/wall hack; when in reality it was me on a gaming "high" being able to loose a bullet with the hairs on someone's head within a half second of seeing an opponent. It's rather hard to explain, but sometimes someone's level of interactivity with the game seems to put the person in their avatar's shoes. If this level of interactivity and concentration can be achieved in other environments (say, a car), you end up with prodigies and "l33ts". Nothing new, really, just scientists noticing an ongoing phenomena.
One of the things that gets me interested in things and makes me want to learn more about it is when I see something really useful or cool or whatnot done with what I want to learn about. Take electronics for example, my electronics teacher got me interested on the first day by pulling out a mic/transmitter array that could be used for very devious purposes (say, room tapping). This caught my attention quick (I'm 16, what d'ya expect). A good way for you to teach them, especially in crash course format, would be to get them to want to be able to do something "up there", like piping
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certain data from an often used program on your server to, say, a log file or even another program. Try to make it look as easy as possible, emphasise that it can be done with any program, any file. Stuff like that cannot be done with any microsoft OS unless the programs are written or re-written specifically for the purpose.
On top of that, when you have them doing something on their own, be doing something on your own computer (X running, blah blah blah) that would amaze a windows user. Use enlightenment with a really good theme while doing something that has to do with class or even just burn time. On the off chance they see what you're doing, they might start looking at Linux as being more and more attractive;)
Of course, this might not work, the students having less care for anything else other than Microsoft, their souls having been sold to them and all:-P
I think that the nanotechnology part of the deal is going to be the most fruitful. As for bending light....
It would be much easier to create a camera/lcd type array. Have tiny cameras every cm or so, then have them feed directly to the lcd on the opposite side of the body. Only problem is the shadow thing, as well as self-lumination. Bending light is quite awhile away. Therm-optics (GitS, anyone?) is most likely a more efficient and practical alternative. My guess is that it would be much less expensive, as well.
As for the EMS part, it's humanitarian enough, but in battle once you're wounded, you're pretty much out of the fight. It would save lives, true, but would not sway the battle for anyone.
In my opinion the army is putting it's money in the wrong place. A soft-body is still a soft-body. You want to gain an advantage in battle? Make it a hard-body. Powered Armor comes to mind, where-as exoskeletons seem to be the rave on everybody's "Something that should be seen in the next Arny movie" part of the brain, they only serve to make a soft-body stronger, they're not going to help stop the bullet. These flashy new bdu's aren't either. They'll either just increase the bulletee's chance of living or confuse the shooter.
bnetd isn't violating the DMCA, furthermore, it isn't causing Blizzard any money. Since b.net is a free service provided by Blizzard upon purchase of their products, the only license required to use b.net is the one purchased with the game. That being said, bnetd is not circumventing any licenses, the fact that using b.net requires a license is irrelevant, the license is an eula prompted when you first use the service. No licenses or failsafes are being circumvented, for no particular license is required to play any of Blizzards products online, only to use their services.
But it's not really that much of an improvement. The energy needed to create the electricity sufficient enough to accomplice this feat would be the equivalent of sending it up via hydro/carbons or any other volatile gas. The idea of Mag/Lev being used to launch vehicles into space is a great suggestion, once we make more breakthroughs in superconductivity and emf, it will become a spectacular solution.
Used up in the cost to get the electricity, though
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Magnetic Space Launches
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Although this technology is by far a better way to get payloads into space, all the energy used to create sufficient electricity to do so would make this method of launch just as costly as the previous. Mag/Lev is an excellent suggestion, after we make more breakthroughs in superconductivity and emf it will become a spectacular solution.
One of the biggest problems facing us as far as flight on Mars is the fact that we have a somewhat trivial fanatacism with wings. With air pressure being 1/100th of that on earth, and gravity being 1/3rd, it is trivial to limit ourselves to the flying wings we see in our skys these days. Helicopters as well, for like a previous poster pointed out it would be difficult to provide the lift with rotors. IMOP, it would be much better to develop a flight system not reliant on air resistance. Rockets would come to mind, but a little too volatile for my liking. Air compression/decompression would be most effective, if we decided to place jets fore and aft on the vehicle. We've been using aeroplanes for little over 100 years now, why not try something different?
Just my two sense
But what about the long term? As far as hardware goes, the PS was actually inferior to the N64, but won out in the long run after everyone knew how to program for it and create (at least aesthetically) better games. The fact that it's medium had 10 times more storage than the N64 is not why it won out, as many will testify; the fact that it was easier to program for becuase of the fact that size was literally not a problem (Final Fantasy, anyone?) opened the door to developers to pump out whatever game they could get approved. Where as the PS has practically countless games for it, almost all of the games for the N64 are generally good if not high-quality.
That being the past, look at the race now. A 3-horse race, 2 of them similair and 1 lame. The fact that both the XBox and the PS2 can play DVD's has everyone wowed and blurry-eyed. The fact that the N64 had twice the bits of the PS accomplished much the same thing. I think that Nintendo's focus on pure gaming and affordability will win out in this one, as it did with Sony in the previous round.
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The internet being the dangerous place that it is (to those not seasoned to it), I've seen it happen many times. As such, I've seen it happen to me.
It has happened twice now that my personal info has been posted in a chat room or forum, that info gathered from either my name or simply what I've told about myself. Both times it has come to a personal threat, one way or another.
Simply put, use your personal information with caution. I still use my info without much worry just because I don't have much to lose, being a minor. Sometimes this can be quite difficult, however.
In these occasions, be prepared to get your hands dirty. I recall one instance where my IP was posted in a hackers chat room simply because I went in there to find out about any new exploits (I was doing a study). In instances like this the law is not going to interfere nor punish those who've commited cybercrimes simply because damage cannot be proven. Even legitimate business and users cannot prove damage without noteable expense.
Defend yourself accordingly, knowing the fact that the law cannot punish you for doing so if they are not first willing to punish the people who perpetrated the crime in the first place.
1: Post something relative to the subject in this format, with step 3 always being PROFIT!!!
2: ????????
3: Karma!!!!
Is it just me or does anyone else wonder if you can make this thing kick itself in the head?
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For some reason he took a nose dive down the side of the stairs instead of down the stairs themselves.
I fell out of my chair laughing.
Same story, different spirit. iq in binary (Score:1) *Chuckle* Anonymous Coward (Score:0) *Go figure*
Star Trek, Red Dward, and Star Wars is nothing but opera. Only the most pessimistic of people can even begin to tender the idea you just did. The people over in Australia are not about story telling, they're about realization.
People may not realize it, but over the course of the past 50 years; we have accomplished what science fiction novels merely speculated about not as far back ago as the 1970's.
Being only 16, I'm not as knowledgable about it as you elder slashdotters; but American and Russian accomplishments in space are more monumental than we realize. Being a firm believer in the theory that we actually did put a man on the moon; I am one to pay attention at the tremendous problems and obstacles that the folks at NASA and the Russian Cosmonauts ran into.
These people are doing the same, but in a more intricate and viable manner. One that teaches others exactly what we are and have been capable of, as long as we put our heads together. One could argue that the step from putting a dog in space and a man on the moon is one so tremendous it makes the evolution of the internet look like nothing more than a grade school game of "Telephone."
Keep that in mind before you toss aside these people's efforts as nothing more than a redundancy.
I am going to make an educated guess when I say that 90% of you slashdotters have no idea how pocketed Denver is. I don't mean racially or financially, I mean in terms of broadband service. There are ALOT of situations where even a nextdoor neighbor of someone who could get DSL or Cable wasn't in the service area. As a matter of fact, my nextdoor neighbor is a good example. Situations like that make consumers both frustrated and angry, Ricochet already has an advantage just because of the area of availability they'll have. Their prices as well, in Denver and surrounding areas I've heard of prices upwards of $200 a month for a 125kb/50kb service plan. Insane and unacceptable. Ricochet will be the pillar of healing light compared to Qwest and AT&T. One commercial and a couple of radio announcements and BOOM, Ricochet will provide 500 more jobless Coloradans with customer service jobs. My prediction is that they won't be able to produce the modems fast enough to serve all the customers they'll have. The day will come when Ricochet is right next to Cricket in the Mini-Bell department. The day will also come when Qwest is right next to MCI in the ex-monopolite department as well. Their online and phone services are the only thing keeping them from financial trouble.
Exactly what they're talking about. I remember playing CS and getting ripped on because everyone was absolutely sure I was using an aim/wall hack; when in reality it was me on a gaming "high" being able to loose a bullet with the hairs on someone's head within a half second of seeing an opponent.
It's rather hard to explain, but sometimes someone's level of interactivity with the game seems to put the person in their avatar's shoes. If this level of interactivity and concentration can be achieved in other environments (say, a car), you end up with prodigies and "l33ts".
Nothing new, really, just scientists noticing an ongoing phenomena.
- very
certain data from an often used program on your server to, say, a log file or even another program. Try to make it look as easy as possible, emphasise that it can be done with any program, any file. Stuff like that cannot be done with any microsoft OS unless the programs are written or re-written specifically for the purpose.On top of that, when you have them doing something on their own, be doing something on your own computer (X running, blah blah blah) that would amaze a windows user. Use enlightenment with a really good theme while doing something that has to do with class or even just burn time. On the off chance they see what you're doing, they might start looking at Linux as being more and more attractive;)
Of course, this might not work, the students having less care for anything else other than Microsoft, their souls having been sold to them and all :-P
I think that the nanotechnology part of the deal is going to be the most fruitful. As for bending light.... It would be much easier to create a camera/lcd type array. Have tiny cameras every cm or so, then have them feed directly to the lcd on the opposite side of the body. Only problem is the shadow thing, as well as self-lumination. Bending light is quite awhile away. Therm-optics (GitS, anyone?) is most likely a more efficient and practical alternative. My guess is that it would be much less expensive, as well. As for the EMS part, it's humanitarian enough, but in battle once you're wounded, you're pretty much out of the fight. It would save lives, true, but would not sway the battle for anyone. In my opinion the army is putting it's money in the wrong place. A soft-body is still a soft-body. You want to gain an advantage in battle? Make it a hard-body. Powered Armor comes to mind, where-as exoskeletons seem to be the rave on everybody's "Something that should be seen in the next Arny movie" part of the brain, they only serve to make a soft-body stronger, they're not going to help stop the bullet. These flashy new bdu's aren't either. They'll either just increase the bulletee's chance of living or confuse the shooter.
bnetd isn't violating the DMCA, furthermore, it isn't causing Blizzard any money. Since b.net is a free service provided by Blizzard upon purchase of their products, the only license required to use b.net is the one purchased with the game. That being said, bnetd is not circumventing any licenses, the fact that using b.net requires a license is irrelevant, the license is an eula prompted when you first use the service. No licenses or failsafes are being circumvented, for no particular license is required to play any of Blizzards products online, only to use their services.
Ack forgive me i didn't see the original so i though it wasn't posted. Sorry!
But it's not really that much of an improvement. The energy needed to create the electricity sufficient enough to accomplice this feat would be the equivalent of sending it up via hydro/carbons or any other volatile gas. The idea of Mag/Lev being used to launch vehicles into space is a great suggestion, once we make more breakthroughs in superconductivity and emf, it will become a spectacular solution.
Although this technology is by far a better way to get payloads into space, all the energy used to create sufficient electricity to do so would make this method of launch just as costly as the previous. Mag/Lev is an excellent suggestion, after we make more breakthroughs in superconductivity and emf it will become a spectacular solution.
One of the biggest problems facing us as far as flight on Mars is the fact that we have a somewhat trivial fanatacism with wings. With air pressure being 1/100th of that on earth, and gravity being 1/3rd, it is trivial to limit ourselves to the flying wings we see in our skys these days. Helicopters as well, for like a previous poster pointed out it would be difficult to provide the lift with rotors. IMOP, it would be much better to develop a flight system not reliant on air resistance. Rockets would come to mind, but a little too volatile for my liking. Air compression/decompression would be most effective, if we decided to place jets fore and aft on the vehicle. We've been using aeroplanes for little over 100 years now, why not try something different?
Just my two sense
But what about the long term? As far as hardware goes, the PS was actually inferior to the N64, but won out in the long run after everyone knew how to program for it and create (at least aesthetically) better games. The fact that it's medium had 10 times more storage than the N64 is not why it won out, as many will testify; the fact that it was easier to program for becuase of the fact that size was literally not a problem (Final Fantasy, anyone?) opened the door to developers to pump out whatever game they could get approved. Where as the PS has practically countless games for it, almost all of the games for the N64 are generally good if not high-quality. That being the past, look at the race now. A 3-horse race, 2 of them similair and 1 lame. The fact that both the XBox and the PS2 can play DVD's has everyone wowed and blurry-eyed. The fact that the N64 had twice the bits of the PS accomplished much the same thing. I think that Nintendo's focus on pure gaming and affordability will win out in this one, as it did with Sony in the previous round.