I'm personally a big fan of Andromeda, although I do also enjoy Earth: Final Conflict and Stargate SG-1. I'm not holding out much hope for Star Trek: Continuity Error, though.
(<sarcasm>Cable? What the hell is cable?</sarcasm>)
Yeah, I was going to comment on the fact that it used to be that movies were only reviewed if they were "geek" movies. And then it slowly degraded into this. I say "Stop the insanity! And stop paying for Katz's movie tickets!"
I remember several years back Final Frontier magazine had a little sidebar on the Gagarin story saying that there was a relatively safe spaceflight before Gagarin, by Vladimir Illushyn (I forget how it's spelled, but he's related to the aircraft designer). He managed to survive the flight, but looked like crap, and so they couldn't really show him off very well. But Gagarin came back just fine, so they used him instead.
Didn't PBS show these earlier? Also, there *was* a US robot wars, which is what the UK show is based on. The US robot wars was discontinued due to legal wranglings.
This all reeks of a publicity stunt or something. First off, the avx page has little to no information about how the virus is spread in Linux, yet gives specific api's for windows. Also, the fix is windows-only. Then, there's a fix at avx last night, when the story breaks. By this morning, CERT and McAfee have still not heard of the virus. Although benny/29A seems to exists, the needle of my bullshit meter is rising upwards.
A virus is any file which infects other files, and propogates by the people distributing infected files. So this would qualify as a virus. This is how viruses used to propogate back in the olden days before we had macro worms that did our propogating for us.
I don't know about everybody else, but the only reason I don't encrypt my e-mail is because the other people aren't running PGP/GPG, or because I'm sending it to a mailing list. I have been known to commonly PGP sign my e-mails, however.
Well, it may be borderline encryption according to common definitions, but the DMCA's incredibly broad on deciding what is and isn't encryption. Remember the CueCat's "encryption"?
Of course, the problem is that one does not have to bypass the "encryption" in order to tell if a mp3 is copyrighted or not. Someone could still download the pig-latin file and play it through an mp3 player to get the song. What you really should do is encode the body of the mp3 through some equally trivial function. Like flipping the bits from 1 to 0 and vice versa, that's still enough to count, but cannot be played without getting "cracked".
Well, being as linux is the operating system most of the/. crew run, it's not surprising that a significant portion of the stories are about linux. This is because/. is inherently biased. (Oh, I'm saying an evil word, biased, biased, biased!) Of course, this bias is the whole reason why people read/. in the first place. If you don't like the linux stories, then you can always A) remove them from your preferences, or B) go away.
Ahh... you have no sense of sarcasm... I was demonstrating the literary effect known as "hyperbole" in which you exaggerate your claims, because, to the best of my knowledge, Linux had beat NetBSD to booting to a prompt on a dreamcast. The point of this post was to be a reverse of a common BSD troll stating that BSD delivers results when Linux only delivers hype. I'm sorry I've had to explain myself so many times here, but I guess my sense of humor is a different style than/. readers are used to. Of course, the fact that I had to explain everything has ruined the joke, and I'll attempt to dumb down my jokes in the future so everyone can enjoy them equally.
Well, the longer I looked, the farther down on the story my comment would show up, so I had to act quickly, lest my comment end up at the bottom and no moderator get bored enough to set it to troll/flamebait. I had just figured that I'm generally around enough Dreamcast lovers/BSD users that I would have been told the second it got to any usermode, be it multiple or single. So I only did a moderate fact-checking. I am not a NetBSD user, and I didn't know to check the mail archives, and I only did a preliminary google search on "NetBSD dreamcast" and only found posts relating to when the kernel booted but it couldn't mount root.
Prior to posting, I checked the NetBSD page to make sure they hadn't reached single user. The latest update on the sh3 page said they were approaching single user mode, but hadn't reached it yet.
As far as I can tell, the NetBSD for Dreamcast project hasn't even been able to anywhere near this far. So once again, BSD delivers hype but Linux delivers results.
P.S. This is my "Take THAT, BSD!" post, and I expect it to get down to Score: -1, flamebait or troll.
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Can you not recognize opening and closing tags when you see them?
I'm personally a big fan of Andromeda, although I do also enjoy Earth: Final Conflict and Stargate SG-1. I'm not holding out much hope for Star Trek: Continuity Error, though.
(<sarcasm>Cable? What the hell is cable?</sarcasm>)
Obviously.
Yeah, I was going to comment on the fact that it used to be that movies were only reviewed if they were "geek" movies. And then it slowly degraded into this. I say "Stop the insanity! And stop paying for Katz's movie tickets!"
Yess.... the left == communists. That's right....
I think he's saying that this has more meat to it than the fake moon landing conspiracy theories.
I remember several years back Final Frontier magazine had a little sidebar on the Gagarin story saying that there was a relatively safe spaceflight before Gagarin, by Vladimir Illushyn (I forget how it's spelled, but he's related to the aircraft designer). He managed to survive the flight, but looked like crap, and so they couldn't really show him off very well. But Gagarin came back just fine, so they used him instead.
I would, but I read this right after I bought my McDonalds Large Orange Drink.
Didn't PBS show these earlier? Also, there *was* a US robot wars, which is what the UK show is based on. The US robot wars was discontinued due to legal wranglings.
This all reeks of a publicity stunt or something. First off, the avx page has little to no information about how the virus is spread in Linux, yet gives specific api's for windows. Also, the fix is windows-only. Then, there's a fix at avx last night, when the story breaks. By this morning, CERT and McAfee have still not heard of the virus. Although benny/29A seems to exists, the needle of my bullshit meter is rising upwards.
A virus is any file which infects other files, and propogates by the people distributing infected files. So this would qualify as a virus. This is how viruses used to propogate back in the olden days before we had macro worms that did our propogating for us.
And yes, this is definately not a worm.
Trollicious, I say.
Trollicuous
I don't know about everybody else, but the only reason I don't encrypt my e-mail is because the other people aren't running PGP/GPG, or because I'm sending it to a mailing list. I have been known to commonly PGP sign my e-mails, however.
Well, it may be borderline encryption according to common definitions, but the DMCA's incredibly broad on deciding what is and isn't encryption. Remember the CueCat's "encryption"?
Of course, the problem is that one does not have to bypass the "encryption" in order to tell if a mp3 is copyrighted or not. Someone could still download the pig-latin file and play it through an mp3 player to get the song. What you really should do is encode the body of the mp3 through some equally trivial function. Like flipping the bits from 1 to 0 and vice versa, that's still enough to count, but cannot be played without getting "cracked".
How about this for an answer: He doesn't, CmdrTaco does.
And for a replacement question: How come you don't hack the database to win anymore?
How come you never hang out in #slashdot anymore? You too good for us now? Huh?
Well, being as linux is the operating system most of the /. crew run, it's not surprising that a significant portion of the stories are about linux. This is because /. is inherently biased. (Oh, I'm saying an evil word, biased, biased, biased!) Of course, this bias is the whole reason why people read /. in the first place. If you don't like the linux stories, then you can always A) remove them from your preferences, or B) go away.
It can't be as cool as the Firewire powerbook, then. That thing took months to boot.
Ahh... you have no sense of sarcasm... I was demonstrating the literary effect known as "hyperbole" in which you exaggerate your claims, because, to the best of my knowledge, Linux had beat NetBSD to booting to a prompt on a dreamcast. The point of this post was to be a reverse of a common BSD troll stating that BSD delivers results when Linux only delivers hype. I'm sorry I've had to explain myself so many times here, but I guess my sense of humor is a different style than /. readers are used to. Of course, the fact that I had to explain everything has ruined the joke, and I'll attempt to dumb down my jokes in the future so everyone can enjoy them equally.
Well, the longer I looked, the farther down on the story my comment would show up, so I had to act quickly, lest my comment end up at the bottom and no moderator get bored enough to set it to troll/flamebait. I had just figured that I'm generally around enough Dreamcast lovers/BSD users that I would have been told the second it got to any usermode, be it multiple or single. So I only did a moderate fact-checking. I am not a NetBSD user, and I didn't know to check the mail archives, and I only did a preliminary google search on "NetBSD dreamcast" and only found posts relating to when the kernel booted but it couldn't mount root.
Prior to posting, I checked the NetBSD page to make sure they hadn't reached single user. The latest update on the sh3 page said they were approaching single user mode, but hadn't reached it yet.
The simple reply to this would be, "Hey, NetBSD did it first! And we're beating them!"
There was a DreamCast gap, and we couldn't just let those dirty commies win could we? They must be commies! Their mascot is covered entirely in red!
*slap*
Sorry, got carried away.
As far as I can tell, the NetBSD for Dreamcast project hasn't even been able to anywhere near this far. So once again, BSD delivers hype but Linux delivers results.
P.S. This is my "Take THAT, BSD!" post, and I expect it to get down to Score: -1, flamebait or troll.