Exactly. It's not like stolen identities go stale all that quickly, either. I'd want to know my infomation was compromised regardless if it was stolen in a batch of 100 or in a batch of one million. A company worrying about whether they're "unnecessarily alarming people" should also be taking proactive steps to avoid and minimalize the damage of such thefts.
I could totally believe amazon is playing nice. Amazon is all about having the best customer experience possible. Have you ever tried to get something returned/exchanged from amazon? It was the smoothest experience I could imagine. They immediately mailed a replacement with expedited shipping and provided a USPS printout to cover the return shipping.
This whole thing just reads wrong. How much are you willing to bet he bought the cd just so that he could deconstruct the DRM? This seems much more likely than a windows-internals hacker just happening to notice an anomaly, dig around for it for a while, and then realize, "Oh, damn, maybe it was that cd I bought that had DRM notices all over it?"
I entirely agree with the parent post. If there were an easy, cheap way to to this with the required redundancy and speed you need, the big SAN companies would not be around.
If there is more data than disks you can shove in a computer, data that your company considers important: buy a SAN. If you have speed requirements, you'll need caching: buy a SAN. If you haven't worked with anything this big before, are you willing to risk your company's data while you learn the ropes?
If you're still intent on doing this, at least look at how the SAN companies pull it off.
Article: Microsoft plans to make its next generation games console, the Xbox 360, as difficult as possible to hack
Headline: Microsoft Aims for Hack-Proof 360
I would like to think that slashdot would be a place where people (e.g. editors) would know the difference between these two statements.
The NES uses tile flipping to switch sprites from right to left (or more rarely, top to bottom). The left Item-2 (the jet platform) should be a mirror image of the one on the right; the "2" on the left should look like a "5" because of the flip.
Except, of course, you really, really don't want to be playing 5th edition. You probably want 2nd ed. (which optionally came in a box set) or the new Paranoia XP, which borrows heavily from 2nd ed. There's a cute blurb at the beginning of the XP book that disavows the existance of the fifth edition and its supplements.
As for installing Mac OS X on non-Apple hardware, attempts to boot from the included Mac OS X for Intel disc resulted in an error message on both a Dell and off-brand PC. The message states that the hardware configuration is not supported by Darwin x86.
What if one tried installing on a machine with chipsets supported by Darwin x86, e.g. something already running Darwin? I'm curious if it's actually a Darwin issue or if it's some other check that the install does.
Sony will squash this with the next big title. (future games) WILL have firmware updates on them. Personally I'd skip games I'm looking forward to in order to keep my PSP working the way I WANT it to work.
Ah, I wondered how the PSP got updates. So when you insert a game with a newer firmware, it updates automatically? Does it go into a special mode for that, and how long does an update take?
How will this affect sites like Google News and Fark?
Why do slashdot articles end with inane questions that obviously aren't interesting or useful? They just drive discussion away from actual article. Instead, we have a whole page of people agreeing that this almost has almost no impact on Google or Fark.
I learned about the Promise SATA150 TX4 from the aaltonen forums. The card is just a disk controller and support is in the 2.6 kernel. I'm using it in a software raid5 configuration and haven't had any problems. It's about $75 at newegg.
Perhaps you should look at Make magazine. Their first issue had some pretty cool stuff. The aerial kite photography project might be doable for $100, if you've got the tools.
I haven't played KD. Does it really need analog control?
I think it'd feel all wrong. You really want to be able to make smooth movements to pick up items laid out in a curve. "Charging up" to make a dash would be awkward -- it involves alternating, opposite up/down motions on the analog sticks.
Basically, the whole game has a great feel with two analog sticks. Maybe they could pull it off with just one analog, using the buttons for sharp turning and the like. I don't think faking the right analog stick with the digital buttons would work to my satisfaction.
Beyond that you're just talking about people's wages.
I think you're forgetting that a lot goes into this. If a professor gets a grant, he pays the school and his department for hosting him, for his own time, and for post-doc, graduate, and undergraduate students to work on the project. I would guess that the majority of the cost isn't in hardware, but in people's time. Who cares what kind of hardware is available if the project won't help pay your tuition? No money, no students, no research.
Katamari Damacy might be tricky, since the PSP only has one analog-ish stick.
Personally, I'm waiting for someone to write a NES/SNES emulator for it. It'd be especially cool to have those old games working with wireless two-player action.
Collision-protect is not a crucial feature, but I agree that it would be nice if it worked, and it probably will work soon.
I think it's pretty important. If, without collision-protect, I emerge package A and then unmerge package B, how do I know it didn't take some of A's files with it? Didn't I just break A and not even know it? How would I even begin to figure it out or fix it other than by emerging A again? (An example.)
It's unclear what the resolution is as a maintainer of a machine. Should I just let the new package clobber files and hope for the best?
I agree that someday it'll work properly, but right now it doesn't give me a happy feeling... which is why the only gentoo install I kept is on a toy machine rather than something important.
I, a Debian user, tried Gentoo on two machines.
Here were the problems I found:
Gentoo's idea of security updates is not yet fully developed. There should be a logical step between "this is a security problem" and "ooh, here is a new version". glsa-check needs to work in concert with portage, rather than as an afterthought. This will get better.
Gentoo's build process doesn't include sensible FEATURES flags by default. In particular, collision-protect, maketest, sandbox, userpriv, and usersandbox really need to be on. I don't want to be building as root. I sure as hell want software to run its own tests to make sure it works (especially if I were trying crazy optimization flags, which I wasn't). And collision-protect, to make sure that packages weren't overwriting other packages' files, seems like a bright idea as well -- except that it doesn't work. I have to turn it off every other week to 'emerge world' for updates. It needs to work, and it needs to be on by default.
The picture of the HDMI interface looks sort of like the port in the back of the playstation 2. Anyone know if they're the same or physically compatible?
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"Back off man.....I'm a scientist".
Actually, that's Venkman's quote.
Exactly. It's not like stolen identities go stale all that quickly, either. I'd want to know my infomation was compromised regardless if it was stolen in a batch of 100 or in a batch of one million. A company worrying about whether they're "unnecessarily alarming people" should also be taking proactive steps to avoid and minimalize the damage of such thefts.
I recommend also reading a post in Schneier's blog about identity theft being over-reported and confused with fraud.
A cubic acre? Scrooge McDuck is so rich that his wealth extends past our normal, trispacial dimensions? Impressive!
I could totally believe amazon is playing nice. Amazon is all about having the best customer experience possible. Have you ever tried to get something returned/exchanged from amazon? It was the smoothest experience I could imagine. They immediately mailed a replacement with expedited shipping and provided a USPS printout to cover the return shipping.
This whole thing just reads wrong. How much are you willing to bet he bought the cd just so that he could deconstruct the DRM? This seems much more likely than a windows-internals hacker just happening to notice an anomaly, dig around for it for a while, and then realize, "Oh, damn, maybe it was that cd I bought that had DRM notices all over it?"
If there is more data than disks you can shove in a computer, data that your company considers important: buy a SAN. If you have speed requirements, you'll need caching: buy a SAN. If you haven't worked with anything this big before, are you willing to risk your company's data while you learn the ropes?
If you're still intent on doing this, at least look at how the SAN companies pull it off.
Zonk is truly on a roll with the bad headlines today
Headline: Microsoft Aims for Hack-Proof 360
I would like to think that slashdot would be a place where people (e.g. editors) would know the difference between these two statements.
The NES uses tile flipping to switch sprites from right to left (or more rarely, top to bottom). The left Item-2 (the jet platform) should be a mirror image of the one on the right; the "2" on the left should look like a "5" because of the flip.
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Except, of course, you really, really don't want to be playing 5th edition. You probably want 2nd ed. (which optionally came in a box set) or the new Paranoia XP, which borrows heavily from 2nd ed. There's a cute blurb at the beginning of the XP book that disavows the existance of the fifth edition and its supplements.
In fact, the last time I updated a bios, I just netbooted the machine. Then again, this was a Sun machine.
What if one tried installing on a machine with chipsets supported by Darwin x86, e.g. something already running Darwin? I'm curious if it's actually a Darwin issue or if it's some other check that the install does.
Ah, I wondered how the PSP got updates. So when you insert a game with a newer firmware, it updates automatically? Does it go into a special mode for that, and how long does an update take?
Why do slashdot articles end with inane questions that obviously aren't interesting or useful? They just drive discussion away from actual article. Instead, we have a whole page of people agreeing that this almost has almost no impact on Google or Fark.
(Yeah, yeah, offtopic.)
I learned about the Promise SATA150 TX4 from the aaltonen forums. The card is just a disk controller and support is in the 2.6 kernel. I'm using it in a software raid5 configuration and haven't had any problems. It's about $75 at newegg.
Perhaps you should look at Make magazine. Their first issue had some pretty cool stuff. The aerial kite photography project might be doable for $100, if you've got the tools.
I think it'd feel all wrong. You really want to be able to make smooth movements to pick up items laid out in a curve. "Charging up" to make a dash would be awkward -- it involves alternating, opposite up/down motions on the analog sticks.
Basically, the whole game has a great feel with two analog sticks. Maybe they could pull it off with just one analog, using the buttons for sharp turning and the like. I don't think faking the right analog stick with the digital buttons would work to my satisfaction.
I think you're forgetting that a lot goes into this. If a professor gets a grant, he pays the school and his department for hosting him, for his own time, and for post-doc, graduate, and undergraduate students to work on the project. I would guess that the majority of the cost isn't in hardware, but in people's time. Who cares what kind of hardware is available if the project won't help pay your tuition? No money, no students, no research.
Personally, I'm waiting for someone to write a NES/SNES emulator for it. It'd be especially cool to have those old games working with wireless two-player action.
It's $150 of M&Ms, of course.
It's unclear what the resolution is as a maintainer of a machine. Should I just let the new package clobber files and hope for the best? I agree that someday it'll work properly, but right now it doesn't give me a happy feeling... which is why the only gentoo install I kept is on a toy machine rather than something important.
you'll look like less of a punk if you cite your references.
The picture of the HDMI interface looks sort of like the port in the back of the playstation 2. Anyone know if they're the same or physically compatible?