You can't run unsigned binaries on the Xbox; the BIOS won't allow it.
Modding your Xbox basically replaces the BIOS with one that will allow it. And no, there's no way to bypass the BIOS on an Xbox (least not that I've heard of), the machine is hardwired to boot that first - like every other PC out there.
a whole new mail system protocol based upon the Palladium security model
Or it could be the countless gigabytes of traffic (hard drive space, admin time, spam filter programming, insert another cost due to spam here) their online service wastes on spam.... you have heard of MSN, no?
Microsoft doesn't give a shit about the well being of it's customers, nor are they looking to benefit the internet community in any way. Any comments by their spokes people alluding to such intentions are purely facade.
Microsoft is taking legal measures because spammers cost them time and money with their Hotmail and MSN ventures.
Welcome to the world of business.
A business is not designed to make friends, engender feelings of goodwill towards puppies, or cure cancer. That, my friend, would be called a charity.
For $800 you "might" be able to score a brand-new eMac, which will run OS X like a dream, and be able to do anything you can do on your economy PC.
Except cost twice as much, and be a real pain to find cheap replacement parts for, and work with the rest of your PC hardware, run any Windows application not specifically ported to Unix/MacOS...
Relating the time to George Boole's accomplishment would have been more informative, that's true, but I don't think most of the people even know who Boole was, not to mention when he lived (I don't know when he lived. 19th century?)
More informative? How about being informative at all?
Most people don't know the connection between a binary number system and electronic digital computers. Most people don't know when the first electronic computers were invented. That didn't stop the news article from using them as a comparison.
Trying to sound smart by saying 'hey, let's compare this to something people understand', then picking something at random as your comparison point, looks pretty idiotic.
How about this: 'the Incas may have used a form of binary code 400 years before binary arithmetic (the language all computers use) was even discovered'. You're at least saying something meaningful.
Oh, and until western (or other) society starts using a calendar based on A.C. (after computer), you may want to rethink your opening line. Unless I missed the past 2000 years of human history.
I was seeing trailers for this movie months before it was released in the US, unless there was a very, very small release in the US that never got anywhere. I was bitching about the overhype on this movie long before anyone that I knew in Canada or the US had even heard about it.
What happened *after* it had been out for a few weeks, yes. But it's been decades since any movie has seen general release in the US *months* before Canada.
the Incas may have used a form of binary code 500 years before computers were invented
I don't get it. George Bool basically wrote the laws of binary arithmetic (hence its name, boolean) way before computers were invented, too.
Having binary arithmetic was essential in the invention of the digital computer - doesn't anyone go to school anymore?
(Not to downplay an interesting accomplishment by the Inca if it is true, but using the invention of computers as your compare date makes little sense.)
The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding got quite a nice cash flow even though the advertising budget was low
I live in Winnipeg (where Nia Vardalos is from, originaly, and yes, that's in Canada). I think they spent their entire advertising budget in my city alone, if the above quote is accurate.
I'm enough of a movie buff that I see about 2-3 movies in theatres a week, and let me tell you: 6 *months* before MBFGW was released, I was seeing trailers for it every few weeks. The month before it came out, the onslaught started. Every single movie I went to had a trailer for it, and I do mean *every*. During its run here, ditto. Of course, I could somewhat ignore this, until the TV campaign started in about 2 weeks before it premiered. Suddenly everyone I knew was talking about how 'good' this movie looked, well before seeing it. By the time it actually was making any money in theatres, very few people I knew hadn't yet heard of it (hell, even my parents were asking what all the fuss was about, and it's been several years since they've seen a new movie).
In a city like Winnipeg, all they had to do was mention once or twice that a film created and starred in by a 'Pegger was coming out, and the local media would have done all the free promotion they needed. Instead, we were bombarded with more trailers than I saw for Spider-Man and LOTR:TT combined, and yes, that's a lot:) I didn't even know anything about Vardalos until after the movie had premiered; until that point I just figured this was the latest 'Hottest Romantic Comedy of the Year!' to be placed on the hype-mobile.
Maybe the rest of the world was spared from this, but up here it was insane. Then again, maybe a 'low advertising budget' just means no superbowl commercial these days.
The big Samba exploit a couple of months ago left a nice root shell bound to a fixed high port. What's interesting about this is that *many* exploits around the same time shared the same shellcode, and thus the same port.
Doing some casual scanning at the time, I picked up hundreds of boxes with a root (or other user, local privlege escalation anyone?) shell open on that very port. This was only a couple of hours of scanning; imagine what I could have done given a few weeks.
Ok, artits, guess you'll have to start making 72 minute long singles then. That way, we'll have to buy the whole album in order to listen to your 'work of art'. Electronica musicians do it all the time.
What? Radio doesn't play 72 minute long songs? Bugger.
Do you HOW the determine what the speed limit for a given stretch of road is? They monitor speeds over that stretch, and set the actual speed limit to the 85th percentile speed.
Oh dear god, and this got modded up. I've never heard such a stupid comment on Slashdot (and that's saying a lot).
Look into road safety sometime, and talk to some engineers. They don't just say 'hey, people drive this fast, that's the new limit'. There are many, MANY regulations about what speed is safe, on what type of road, how many lanes, how curvy, how much traffic it gets, is it residential, etc. Engineers test these things, add in weather conditions (ever notice signs that mandate a slower speed when it's icy?), and take some actual vehicles to see just what is safe considering the average person's response time.
Just because you think your civil liberties involve the right to be drunk on the road, and think it's ok to drive 100mph next to a schoolyard, does NOT mean these sorts of laws are all about a 'cash grab'. Don't believe me? Check out highway death statistics after the Feds brought in the national speed limit. The only reason they're not right up there again is the incredible amount of safety equipment we have in our cars these days (mandatory belts - no, this is not a 'cash grab' either, air bags, side impact beams, crumple zones).
I'm about as rabid a civil rights advocate as there is, but sorry, I don't think you have the right to endanger my life by driving far faster than what is considered safe by people that have actually performed crash studies.
Yeah, if this passes, the era of Kazaa et al. will end perminantly, as everyone will be too scared to get caught to share or download as the FBI WILL catch people for copyright violations.
Yeah, because we all know how effective the FBI warnings are on video tapes and DVDs. And hardly anyone holds public showings of their movies.
Anyone know if there's a patch to insert a mandatory delay in IE before an outgoing request is sent, during which it can be aborted, so that Sudden Web attacks can be halted?
Yes. Install an application aware firewall, like Zonealarm, on your computer. When IE attempts to make a connection to the internet, Zonealarm will popup and ask you if it's ok, BEFORE the connection is established. Of course, this only works if you don't use IE as your primary browser, because otherwise it's a huge pain saying 'yes' every time you want to surf:)
As someone who has worked on the inside of many a Commodore Pet, you don't need a mini-ITX board in one of these. The mainboard on a Pet is larger than any XT/AT board I've ever seen, and there's plenty of room to spare for drives, etc.
It's a pretty damn easy mod, too - the Pet had an easy-open case, much like the hood of a car. Pop a couple of screws, and the entire top just folds back (complete with bar to hold it up while you work inside!).
I disagree with the actions of the RIAA when they go around suing college kids for writing search engines, but I still think it's important for Slashdot to post the story.
by posting it (esp. on the front page, which is how I got here), Slashdot is implicitly condoning this.
So Slashdot is condoning the RIAA suing college students? And SCO's behaviour? And the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre?
Interesting...
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I've always been told to connect the negative on the GOOD battery, and the other negative to the frame of the car with the bad battery. In fact, the van's owner's manual says the exact same thing.
Connecting both negatives to the frame doesn't do anything, any time I've tried boosting a car.
And I've never seen sparks when boosting a car, although connecting both batteries with both terminals probably does that:)
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On the other hand, they could just go with the inelegant solution of designing an interface that makes it impossible to connect jumper cables.
We had to boost one of our cars the other day, and the only other vehicle handy was my father's Montana. The battery is in there in such a way that you cannot access the terminals directly, at least not without cutting away parts of the frame (or removing the battery, of course). To allow for boosts TO the van, they have a 'remote positive terminal' which you can easily access.
Only problem is, there is no 'remote negative terminal', essentially making it impossible to use his van to boost another car. Even the owner's manual insists you need a negative terminal to boost from, so it's not like there's some weird configuration of booster cables that I've never heard of.
"The Simpsons" is now drawn by people in Thailand for $1/hr!
The Simpsons has been drawn overseas ever since it started (except maybe the Ulman shorts), some 15 years ago now.
It's cheaper, and in most cases, BETTER than work done in North America. We just don't have that many skilled animators here. Any left work for the evil known as Disney - and I'm pretty sure they've been outsourcing for years too.
I'd venture that Resident Evil was a pretty kick-ass flick, especially for any Romero fans.
Ok, so it stands on its own as being the only movie based on a video game that doesn't suck (some may claim Mortal Kombat, but come on now: as a movie it's pretty bad, we just liked the fight scenes and awesome techno soundtrack).
Just for fun, let's see just how bad it gets:
Super Mario Brothers Street Fighter (Raul Julia is rolling in his grave over this one) Tomb Raider (and they're making a SEQUEL!!?!??)
Of course, if you include Joysticks, you HAVE to include Tron - one of the most innovative movies of all time. And hey, the critics hated it, yet the DVD was a best seller for a while.
In June 1999, Bhutan became the last nation in the world to turn on television. The Dragon King had lifted a ban on the small screen as part of a radical plan to modernise his country
Call me naive, but I seriously doubt cable TV was the ONLY thing done to 'modernise his country'. But, telling the whole story never sells eyeballs, now does it?
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You can't run unsigned binaries on the Xbox; the BIOS won't allow it.
Modding your Xbox basically replaces the BIOS with one that will allow it. And no, there's no way to bypass the BIOS on an Xbox (least not that I've heard of), the machine is hardwired to boot that first - like every other PC out there.
If you're seriously asking why, on a geek-oriented newssite, people want to tinker with their hardware just for the sake of doing so...
I'm afraid any answer you receive will seem just as trivial and nonsensical as the ones you've already quoted.
(or, to take the urban legend Philosophy exam answer: Why Not.)
a whole new mail system protocol based upon the Palladium security model
... you have heard of MSN, no?
Or it could be the countless gigabytes of traffic (hard drive space, admin time, spam filter programming, insert another cost due to spam here) their online service wastes on spam.
Microsoft doesn't give a shit about the well being of it's customers, nor are they looking to benefit the internet community in any way. Any comments by their spokes people alluding to such intentions are purely facade.
Microsoft is taking legal measures because spammers cost them time and money with their Hotmail and MSN ventures.
Welcome to the world of business.
A business is not designed to make friends, engender feelings of goodwill towards puppies, or cure cancer. That, my friend, would be called a charity.
I think it's even better that he decried spam as being a vehicle for destructive viruses.
Quick, name a mass-mailing worm that *doesn't* use Outlook (/Express).
For $800 you "might" be able to score a brand-new eMac, which will run OS X like a dream, and be able to do anything you can do on your economy PC.
Except cost twice as much, and be a real pain to find cheap replacement parts for, and work with the rest of your PC hardware, run any Windows application not specifically ported to Unix/MacOS...
Relating the time to George Boole's accomplishment would have been more informative, that's true, but I don't think most of the people even know who Boole was, not to mention when he lived (I don't know when he lived. 19th century?)
More informative? How about being informative at all?
Most people don't know the connection between a binary number system and electronic digital computers. Most people don't know when the first electronic computers were invented. That didn't stop the news article from using them as a comparison.
Trying to sound smart by saying 'hey, let's compare this to something people understand', then picking something at random as your comparison point, looks pretty idiotic.
How about this: 'the Incas may have used a form of binary code 400 years before binary arithmetic (the language all computers use) was even discovered'. You're at least saying something meaningful.
Oh, and until western (or other) society starts using a calendar based on A.C. (after computer), you may want to rethink your opening line. Unless I missed the past 2000 years of human history.
I was seeing trailers for this movie months before it was released in the US, unless there was a very, very small release in the US that never got anywhere. I was bitching about the overhype on this movie long before anyone that I knew in Canada or the US had even heard about it.
What happened *after* it had been out for a few weeks, yes. But it's been decades since any movie has seen general release in the US *months* before Canada.
the Incas may have used a form of binary code 500 years before computers were invented
I don't get it. George Bool basically wrote the laws of binary arithmetic (hence its name, boolean) way before computers were invented, too.
Having binary arithmetic was essential in the invention of the digital computer - doesn't anyone go to school anymore?
(Not to downplay an interesting accomplishment by the Inca if it is true, but using the invention of computers as your compare date makes little sense.)
The movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding got quite a nice cash flow even though the advertising budget was low
:) I didn't even know anything about Vardalos until after the movie had premiered; until that point I just figured this was the latest 'Hottest Romantic Comedy of the Year!' to be placed on the hype-mobile.
I live in Winnipeg (where Nia Vardalos is from, originaly, and yes, that's in Canada). I think they spent their entire advertising budget in my city alone, if the above quote is accurate.
I'm enough of a movie buff that I see about 2-3 movies in theatres a week, and let me tell you: 6 *months* before MBFGW was released, I was seeing trailers for it every few weeks. The month before it came out, the onslaught started. Every single movie I went to had a trailer for it, and I do mean *every*. During its run here, ditto. Of course, I could somewhat ignore this, until the TV campaign started in about 2 weeks before it premiered. Suddenly everyone I knew was talking about how 'good' this movie looked, well before seeing it. By the time it actually was making any money in theatres, very few people I knew hadn't yet heard of it (hell, even my parents were asking what all the fuss was about, and it's been several years since they've seen a new movie).
In a city like Winnipeg, all they had to do was mention once or twice that a film created and starred in by a 'Pegger was coming out, and the local media would have done all the free promotion they needed. Instead, we were bombarded with more trailers than I saw for Spider-Man and LOTR:TT combined, and yes, that's a lot
Maybe the rest of the world was spared from this, but up here it was insane. Then again, maybe a 'low advertising budget' just means no superbowl commercial these days.
The big Samba exploit a couple of months ago left a nice root shell bound to a fixed high port. What's interesting about this is that *many* exploits around the same time shared the same shellcode, and thus the same port.
Doing some casual scanning at the time, I picked up hundreds of boxes with a root (or other user, local privlege escalation anyone?) shell open on that very port. This was only a couple of hours of scanning; imagine what I could have done given a few weeks.
Ok, artits, guess you'll have to start making 72 minute long singles then. That way, we'll have to buy the whole album in order to listen to your 'work of art'. Electronica musicians do it all the time.
What? Radio doesn't play 72 minute long songs? Bugger.
Do you HOW the determine what the speed limit for a given stretch of road is? They monitor speeds over that stretch, and set the actual speed limit to the 85th percentile speed.
Oh dear god, and this got modded up. I've never heard such a stupid comment on Slashdot (and that's saying a lot).
Look into road safety sometime, and talk to some engineers. They don't just say 'hey, people drive this fast, that's the new limit'. There are many, MANY regulations about what speed is safe, on what type of road, how many lanes, how curvy, how much traffic it gets, is it residential, etc. Engineers test these things, add in weather conditions (ever notice signs that mandate a slower speed when it's icy?), and take some actual vehicles to see just what is safe considering the average person's response time.
Just because you think your civil liberties involve the right to be drunk on the road, and think it's ok to drive 100mph next to a schoolyard, does NOT mean these sorts of laws are all about a 'cash grab'. Don't believe me? Check out highway death statistics after the Feds brought in the national speed limit. The only reason they're not right up there again is the incredible amount of safety equipment we have in our cars these days (mandatory belts - no, this is not a 'cash grab' either, air bags, side impact beams, crumple zones).
I'm about as rabid a civil rights advocate as there is, but sorry, I don't think you have the right to endanger my life by driving far faster than what is considered safe by people that have actually performed crash studies.
Yeah, if this passes, the era of Kazaa et al. will end perminantly, as everyone will be too scared to get caught to share or download as the FBI WILL catch people for copyright violations.
Yeah, because we all know how effective the FBI warnings are on video tapes and DVDs. And hardly anyone holds public showings of their movies.
No wonder Windows and Office keep getting more expensive!
Anyone know if there's a patch to insert a mandatory delay in IE before an outgoing request is sent, during which it can be aborted, so that Sudden Web attacks can be halted?
:)
Yes. Install an application aware firewall, like Zonealarm, on your computer. When IE attempts to make a connection to the internet, Zonealarm will popup and ask you if it's ok, BEFORE the connection is established. Of course, this only works if you don't use IE as your primary browser, because otherwise it's a huge pain saying 'yes' every time you want to surf
No wonder everytime I try to download mp3s, I can never find anything new!
As someone who has worked on the inside of many a Commodore Pet, you don't need a mini-ITX board in one of these. The mainboard on a Pet is larger than any XT/AT board I've ever seen, and there's plenty of room to spare for drives, etc.
It's a pretty damn easy mod, too - the Pet had an easy-open case, much like the hood of a car. Pop a couple of screws, and the entire top just folds back (complete with bar to hold it up while you work inside!).
I disagree with the actions of the RIAA when they go around suing college kids for writing search engines, but I still think it's important for Slashdot to post the story.
Your point again was?
by posting it (esp. on the front page, which is how I got here), Slashdot is implicitly condoning this.
So Slashdot is condoning the RIAA suing college students? And SCO's behaviour? And the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre?
Interesting...
I've always been told to connect the negative on the GOOD battery, and the other negative to the frame of the car with the bad battery. In fact, the van's owner's manual says the exact same thing.
:)
Connecting both negatives to the frame doesn't do anything, any time I've tried boosting a car.
And I've never seen sparks when boosting a car, although connecting both batteries with both terminals probably does that
On the other hand, they could just go with the inelegant solution of designing an interface that makes it impossible to connect jumper cables.
We had to boost one of our cars the other day, and the only other vehicle handy was my father's Montana. The battery is in there in such a way that you cannot access the terminals directly, at least not without cutting away parts of the frame (or removing the battery, of course). To allow for boosts TO the van, they have a 'remote positive terminal' which you can easily access.
Only problem is, there is no 'remote negative terminal', essentially making it impossible to use his van to boost another car. Even the owner's manual insists you need a negative terminal to boost from, so it's not like there's some weird configuration of booster cables that I've never heard of.
Gotta love progress.
"The Simpsons" is now drawn by people in Thailand for $1/hr!
The Simpsons has been drawn overseas ever since it started (except maybe the Ulman shorts), some 15 years ago now.
It's cheaper, and in most cases, BETTER than work done in North America. We just don't have that many skilled animators here. Any left work for the evil known as Disney - and I'm pretty sure they've been outsourcing for years too.
I'd venture that Resident Evil was a pretty kick-ass flick, especially for any Romero fans.
Ok, so it stands on its own as being the only movie based on a video game that doesn't suck (some may claim Mortal Kombat, but come on now: as a movie it's pretty bad, we just liked the fight scenes and awesome techno soundtrack).
Just for fun, let's see just how bad it gets:
Super Mario Brothers
Street Fighter (Raul Julia is rolling in his grave over this one)
Tomb Raider (and they're making a SEQUEL!!?!??)
Of course, if you include Joysticks, you HAVE to include Tron - one of the most innovative movies of all time. And hey, the critics hated it, yet the DVD was a best seller for a while.
Correlation != Causation.
Just look at the article itself:
In June 1999, Bhutan became the last nation in the world to turn on television. The Dragon King had lifted a ban on the small screen as part of a radical plan to modernise his country
Call me naive, but I seriously doubt cable TV was the ONLY thing done to 'modernise his country'. But, telling the whole story never sells eyeballs, now does it?