Well, one could argue that speed laws are there for the 99.9999% of the time people shouldn't be speeding. But you don't want a rate-limiter in cars, because what if someone DOES need to, for just a short time, drive over the limit? Say there's an emergency of some sort, or what have you...
Also, it could be argued that forcibly controlling a car's speed violates your freedoms. With this scheme, you're free to speed if you want, but be prepared to pay the consequences:)
Anyone can write a worm that leverages a security hole in a default service of a default Red Hat Linux install. Or Windows XP Home Edition.
Except that a default Red Hat install runs pretty much no services, nor leaves any ports listening (no services generally means no ports, but just in case people can't keep up:). XP, on the other hand, has a good half dozen ports open, some of which are almost impossible to close.
I think the issue of 'likelihood' is answered quite sufficiently by that fact alone.
I'm in the same boat as this guy (although my Vectrex needs some work on the display *grumble*), and I *am* doing something about bitrot.
I'm keeping copies of ROMs for every game I own on my PC, and back them up to whatever off-site media is available reasonably cheap. Started with tape, moved onto CD, and just finished with some DVD-R's of ROMs.
If I keep this up, my game collection will more than outlive me, although I've yet to see any bitrot on any game I own, and some of the original Atari VCS cartridges are 26 years old now.
Interestingly, about as many people (~20) died in this Brazilian accident as died in the history of NASA events (17)
I think this shows just why no other country has gotten as far along in its space program as the USA, and no, it's not just blind luck.
All the usual "hey, let's bash an entire nation of 300 million just because one guy made a silly submission to some geek website" bashing cannot replace the fact that the US did (most of) it first, and did all of it best.
North America/Europe has nothing to do with it; you bought the one console aimed squarely at introverts, and are now wondering where all the party games are.
Then again, if you really truly believe what you posted, why not pick up an old Super Nintendo, or better yet, an old Atari? That is, "unless you're a sad spotty teenager who gets a hard-on having more technology than the next guy".
Exactly right, and keyboards essentially work the same today.
Try setting up a MAME cabinet using keyboard-based input only, and a game such as one of the later Street Fighters. You'll have a field day with all of the multi-button combinations - keyboard simply cannot distinguish all of those individual keys being pressed at the same time.
In fact, it's actually a bit worse than you describe. Because of how input signals are pulled from a keyboard (think of a big matrix of crossed wires), if you mash enough keys together, you can end up with keypresses detected that you never actually hit at all, a phenomenon known as 'ghosting'.
I agree with you, but I must say this: over the years, I find myself getting out of touch with people, because of the very list of communitcation methods you describe (and there are many more).
The first thing I do when I get home is NOT check 18 different clients to see if anyone I know has contacted me. Hell, I still know people who won't move off of Yahoo! messenger.
Wouldn't a standard *something* be nice? I always thought we had it with IRC, but them IM became a reality.. *sigh*
Maybe I'm missing something, but the day I have to pay $1000 just to write some Windows software is the day I (and many, many others) stop writing free software.
I know, I have a better solution. STOP SHIPPING OPERATING SYSTEMS WITH A DOZEN OPEN PORTS, BOUND TO SERVICES 99.999% OF YOUR USERS DON'T USE.
you never ever hear anyone complain about the inefficiency of Intels chip design.
Actually, I hear it all the time on Slashdot, Mac fan sites, my Comp. Architecture prof,...
We all KNOW Intel's CPUs are poorly designed. Backwards-compatability issues, the shitty bolted-on pipeline, the CISC-ness of it, blah, blah, blah. Saying an Intel designs bad CPUs is like saying Microsoft designs insecure software. Everyone knows it, but their sheer market presence implies we'll all be talking about ways to get around those issues.
Zest gets you cleaner than soap because it doesn't leave a filmy residue" is a true fact, and not misleading at all; the question is, do you want to be so clean that even the natural oils on your skin have been removed?
As a current undergrad experiencing C, I wouldn't have used a first fit algo anyway. We handed in an assignment for our OS class literally last week, and wow, is best fit ever the shits.
You mean in the same manner that someone could have written a worm to take advantage of the RPC vulnerability and install ANYTHING on millions of computers?
They could call it Blaster, and get all sorts of media attention!
wow... scary...
(for the pedants out there, yes, Blaster only seems to have hit a few hundred thousand machines. Blame the worm authors for not being good enough coders)
Devil's Advocate, but 50 million people lost power, not just NYC.
For those not good with math, that's 100 TIMES as bad as what you're describing, although admittedly for a shorter period of time. I'd call it major news too.
if I want to read a straight-up unadulterated Iraqi viewpoint of the war, or the outage, or anything, I'm not going to go to Fox News, I'm going to go to an Iraqi news source.
Yeah, because we all know just how well informed the Iraqi Information Minister is. I'm still pretty sure the Americans haven't been into Baghdad yet.
Then again, it's a laptop. I didn't exactly purchase it to play Doom 3.
My HP (ze4229ca) was a dream to install Linux on, really. Easier than many desktops. The only things I haven't got working on it (besides the 3d) are the modem (don't use it), and my wireless card (stupid Dlink ac100x card). Beyond that, putting RedHat on it was dead simple. Just use the generic VESA driver for video and boom - a nice, zippy Linux laptop.
Considering I can't even get Windows 2000 to INSTALL on it, let alone driver support, I'd say it gets a passing grade from me. It's been saving my butt this year during school; I can do my programming assignments anywhere (yes, our homework is to code in C in Linux:).
This is a garden-variety buffer-overflow exploit of the sort that could just as easily still exist somewhere in Linux.
Yeah, except that there are no network-accesible services running under any Linux distro that I've ever seen that would break the OS if you disabled them. There's also that whole 'default firewall' thing that you tend to see with modern Linux distros.
Have fun trying a 'garden-variety buffer-overflow exploit' against my Linux machines over the Internet. I can guarantee you won't accomplish anything.
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Well, one could argue that speed laws are there for the 99.9999% of the time people shouldn't be speeding. But you don't want a rate-limiter in cars, because what if someone DOES need to, for just a short time, drive over the limit? Say there's an emergency of some sort, or what have you...
:)
Also, it could be argued that forcibly controlling a car's speed violates your freedoms. With this scheme, you're free to speed if you want, but be prepared to pay the consequences
Anyone can write a worm that leverages a security hole in a default service of a default Red Hat Linux install. Or Windows XP Home Edition.
:). XP, on the other hand, has a good half dozen ports open, some of which are almost impossible to close.
Except that a default Red Hat install runs pretty much no services, nor leaves any ports listening (no services generally means no ports, but just in case people can't keep up
I think the issue of 'likelihood' is answered quite sufficiently by that fact alone.
Have a blast (pardon the pun) removing the RPC service from a Win2k box, and expecting it to run for any length of time.
Anybody who puts a linux system on their network and doesn't update it is likly to have their system exploited.
Some day I'm going to take someone up on this challenge, and post my Linux box's IP address on Slashdot.
Have fun trying to exploit a machine with no open ports, and no listening services. Especially when IPtables blocks anything you send my way.
Oh yeah, that was the *default* install, by the way.
linuxsucks.com pays for high msn search rankings?
Wow, some people really DO have an axe to grind.
I'm in the same boat as this guy (although my Vectrex needs some work on the display *grumble*), and I *am* doing something about bitrot.
I'm keeping copies of ROMs for every game I own on my PC, and back them up to whatever off-site media is available reasonably cheap. Started with tape, moved onto CD, and just finished with some DVD-R's of ROMs.
If I keep this up, my game collection will more than outlive me, although I've yet to see any bitrot on any game I own, and some of the original Atari VCS cartridges are 26 years old now.
Also, as a collector, has he ever actually played all of the games that he owns?
I think that by definition, the answer is almost certainly no.
You might as well ask a coin collector "have you actually spent all of the coins you own?".
Interestingly, about as many people (~20) died in this Brazilian accident as died in the history of NASA events (17)
I think this shows just why no other country has gotten as far along in its space program as the USA, and no, it's not just blind luck.
All the usual "hey, let's bash an entire nation of 300 million just because one guy made a silly submission to some geek website" bashing cannot replace the fact that the US did (most of) it first, and did all of it best.
And no, I'm not an American.
Pick up a Gamecube, and you'll have your answer.
North America/Europe has nothing to do with it; you bought the one console aimed squarely at introverts, and are now wondering where all the party games are.
Then again, if you really truly believe what you posted, why not pick up an old Super Nintendo, or better yet, an old Atari? That is, "unless you're a sad spotty teenager who gets a hard-on having more technology than the next guy".
In the case of Doom 3, point and kill is much better for teaching midgets to disassemble zombies...
Exactly right, and keyboards essentially work the same today.
Try setting up a MAME cabinet using keyboard-based input only, and a game such as one of the later Street Fighters. You'll have a field day with all of the multi-button combinations - keyboard simply cannot distinguish all of those individual keys being pressed at the same time.
In fact, it's actually a bit worse than you describe. Because of how input signals are pulled from a keyboard (think of a big matrix of crossed wires), if you mash enough keys together, you can end up with keypresses detected that you never actually hit at all, a phenomenon known as 'ghosting'.
I agree with you, but I must say this: over the years, I find myself getting out of touch with people, because of the very list of communitcation methods you describe (and there are many more).
The first thing I do when I get home is NOT check 18 different clients to see if anyone I know has contacted me. Hell, I still know people who won't move off of Yahoo! messenger.
Wouldn't a standard *something* be nice? I always thought we had it with IRC, but them IM became a reality.. *sigh*
In a few years, they're changing that one, anyway.
To Urectum.
Is this a troll or what?
Maybe I'm missing something, but the day I have to pay $1000 just to write some Windows software is the day I (and many, many others) stop writing free software.
I know, I have a better solution. STOP SHIPPING OPERATING SYSTEMS WITH A DOZEN OPEN PORTS, BOUND TO SERVICES 99.999% OF YOUR USERS DON'T USE.
you never ever hear anyone complain about the inefficiency of Intels chip design.
...
Actually, I hear it all the time on Slashdot, Mac fan sites, my Comp. Architecture prof,
We all KNOW Intel's CPUs are poorly designed. Backwards-compatability issues, the shitty bolted-on pipeline, the CISC-ness of it, blah, blah, blah. Saying an Intel designs bad CPUs is like saying Microsoft designs insecure software. Everyone knows it, but their sheer market presence implies we'll all be talking about ways to get around those issues.
Zest gets you cleaner than soap because it doesn't leave a filmy residue" is a true fact, and not misleading at all; the question is, do you want to be so clean that even the natural oils on your skin have been removed?
Slashdot... body oils...
Ah hell, I won't even bother.
Ah, the humour impaired.
Although there's something to be said about displaying ignorance by assuming that all undergrads are 20 years old...
As a current undergrad experiencing C, I wouldn't have used a first fit algo anyway. We handed in an assignment for our OS class literally last week, and wow, is best fit ever the shits.
You mean in the same manner that someone could have written a worm to take advantage of the RPC vulnerability and install ANYTHING on millions of computers?
They could call it Blaster, and get all sorts of media attention!
wow... scary...
(for the pedants out there, yes, Blaster only seems to have hit a few hundred thousand machines. Blame the worm authors for not being good enough coders)
I'll play devil's advocate here:
Just because you might find something offensive, does not make it illegal.
I may not have received every nasty spam there is, but to date I've never seen anything in my inbox worth putting someone in jail for.
Little Johnny will discover breasts eventually, it's not that big a deal.
Devil's Advocate, but 50 million people lost power, not just NYC.
For those not good with math, that's 100 TIMES as bad as what you're describing, although admittedly for a shorter period of time. I'd call it major news too.
if I want to read a straight-up unadulterated Iraqi viewpoint of the war, or the outage, or anything, I'm not going to go to Fox News, I'm going to go to an Iraqi news source.
Yeah, because we all know just how well informed the Iraqi Information Minister is. I'm still pretty sure the Americans haven't been into Baghdad yet.
The parent's 100% correct about 3d support.
:).
Then again, it's a laptop. I didn't exactly purchase it to play Doom 3.
My HP (ze4229ca) was a dream to install Linux on, really. Easier than many desktops. The only things I haven't got working on it (besides the 3d) are the modem (don't use it), and my wireless card (stupid Dlink ac100x card). Beyond that, putting RedHat on it was dead simple. Just use the generic VESA driver for video and boom - a nice, zippy Linux laptop.
Considering I can't even get Windows 2000 to INSTALL on it, let alone driver support, I'd say it gets a passing grade from me. It's been saving my butt this year during school; I can do my programming assignments anywhere (yes, our homework is to code in C in Linux
This is a garden-variety buffer-overflow exploit of the sort that could just as easily still exist somewhere in Linux.
Yeah, except that there are no network-accesible services running under any Linux distro that I've ever seen that would break the OS if you disabled them. There's also that whole 'default firewall' thing that you tend to see with modern Linux distros.
Have fun trying a 'garden-variety buffer-overflow exploit' against my Linux machines over the Internet. I can guarantee you won't accomplish anything.
Atomic Weight: 120 +/-
That must be in kilos, right? I'd give my left nut to find a 120 lb woman, who's also not 4'8".