I try to let everyone I know be aware of the kind of bullshit that's going down around us, but it's frustrating: nobody wants to listen. The only people that don't completely ignore me are the people that already know about the issues and have already made up their mind one way or another, but those people are few and far between.
People will only wake up, I'm afraid, when it's far too late to do anything. It may be past that point now. Big business has such a foothold in government (even on the international level -- look at Chevron) and is so, so good at manipulation of the public, the media, and public officials now that the situation seems almost hopeless. How can people be made to know of what's really happening when they're conditioned to accept as canon what they read in the newspaper and see on the local and national news programs? Will they really believe the ramblings of some kooks on the internet, no matter how many of us there are? Hell, even I take everything on the Web with a grain of salt, and I consider myself an open-minded person. What the vast majority of people that will only ever put their faith the old-fashioned media?
The revolution will not be televised, because it isn't going to occur.
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..or otherwise crashable using one of the myriad tools available to decimate the Microsoft Windows TCP/IP stack. I have a shell script that I experiment with that runs everything in my "arsenal" when someone tries messing with my machines on the internet. It's successful more than half the time. The simple fact of the matter is that most people don't pay enough attention to the security and integrity updates that OS makers release constantly.
Think how many UNIX boxes are rootable despite the best efforts of CERT and BugTraq, and these people are supposed to know better! You can thank incompetent and lazy sysadmins the next time your network is the victim of a distributed UDP/ICMP DoS attack. The tools to cause this kind of chaos are becoming more and more widespread (Trin00 and TFN on the UNIX side, and now this Mac-targeted tool), and if you thought Smurf attacks were bad, imagine something that's impossible to stop and just as untraceable rendering your network useless.
It's a pretty fucked-up situation. And it's not gonna get any better any time soon, I'm afraid.
- A.P. --
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Why not buy top-end equipment? Hell, for an entity that spends 2 billion dollars on a stealth fighter, an extra 50 bucks for a damned sound card makes _absolutely no difference_. It's not like you'll feel it when they take the 1 millionth of a penny out of your paycheck for it. (And please, don't tell me "but those millionths-of-pennies add up!", because I'll tell you to go tell them to stop buying warplanes.)
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He's complaining that Steve "look at my turtleneck" Jobs wasn't picked as Man of the Year, completely ignoring the fact that his smarmy mug has already graced(?) the cover of Time magazine once three months ago, and we were also treated to a lengthy article about Apple's resurrection back in April or thereabouts. I, quite frankly, have had enough of the man, and am beginning to wonder if Time isn't owned at least in some small part by Apple Computer. They seem to have enough ads peppered throughout each and every issue...
Ohwell.
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What about the mailinglist then? Since the core FreeBSD developers frequently post to the list, I'd say it's a pretty good barometer of the camp as a whole.
I don't personally like what I've seen of it, either.
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You've never had to call a locksmith because you've locked yourself out of your apartment or you've locked your keys in your car? People do this all the time; there's quite a market for it.
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There will be a special hidden feature which, when activated, will cause the movie to stop and a copy of "American Beauty" to start playing in its stead.
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God forbid anyone use an OS that isn't Linux, or discover that, after installing and using Linux, it didn't meet their expectations. I mean, shit, don't they know that Linux can do anything? I pity them too.
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It never existed, and it does not now exist in any form. The so-called "brain" of this Anonymous Coward is a myth created by conservative so-called "Intellectuals" (moron Money-worshippers) and pro-wealth Fascists to create well-earned hatred in the minds of saner Americans and so persuade them to post on Slashdot. Christopher Columbus thought he discovered this Anonymous Coward's brain in AD 1492, and found no rational thought there. The revisionist version says otherwise, but if you do some research you'll find that there is not a single mention of that version in any publication prior to 1963. Not a single, solitary mention of "Anonymous Coward's brain" of any kind, anywhere. No "Neural networks", no "Synapses", nothing at all. No, the story was invented to discredit the smarter people amongst us by the same people who would want us to forget Germany circa 1939. Obviously Anonymous Coward was in denial, and he obviously knew it. This is why he refused to post under his real name, "Dickbag", instead using the faceless name "Anonymous Coward". This is simple and obvious logic, based on well-known facts, but logic and facts aren't worth much to Anonymous Cowards as we all know. --
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I'd take 1600x1200 *any day of the week* over a 60 Hz refresh rate, no matter what the resolution. Chances are, you'll be able to run 1600x1200 at *at least* 75 Hz, and probably 80 or more. You probably start getting migraines from a 60 Hz refresh rate.
At any rate, the "Max" refresh rate is probably just the manufacturer's recommended maximum rate. The warranty might well be void if you drive it at anything more than that.
- A.P. --
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DDS-2 SCSI drives will hold 4 gigs (8 compressed) and are very reliable. I have a pair of them at home, and they're not that expensive, by my standards. You can get them brand new off Pricewatch for about $150 or so now, and I've seen them at swap meets for about $100. Onsale had (perhaps still has?) Aiwa DDS-2 drives for %75. A SCSI card for these things shouldn't run you too much -- you don't need anything too fancy to drive them. I've got mine connected to an old Adaptec 1521.
I really recommend SCSI for backups, mostly because everything supports it and it's pretty much foolproof. It really isn't all that expensive either.
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Like this, for example. Pay attention to the original question:
JCal: You have called games like Doom and Quake "murder simulators" implying that they can actually teach a person to operate a real firearm and shoot it accurately. Yet in most of these games, the firearms are of a fantasy-futuristic variety with no relationship to real weapons. Also, the games are played in a sitting position and players click on buttons on a mouse and keyboard. Why do you believe playing these games trains children to know how to aim and fire a real, loaded firearm?
Now look at his response:
Col. Grossman: John, if you play at flying a plane we call that a flight simulator. If you play at shooting people it is a murder simulator. Like a plane, a gun is a mechanical device that you learn to use. I primarily apply this term (murder simulator) to games where you actually point a gun and learn trigger reflexes and other skills. But just as a flight simulator where the "player click on buttons on a mouse and keyboard" is still a flight simulator and still useful in helping you learn to fly, so too with Doom and Quake.
Now, that's fair enough. I don't take too much issue with what he says here. But now look at what he does:
Now a law enforcement sniper training magazine ("Sniper". ..) wrote the following in their recent Issue 28:
"A new video game "Silent Scope" is the latest rage at the local arcades. This video game puts you, the sniper, behind a scoped rifle, interacting in an unfolding scenario in which your talents are needed to help rescue the President's daughter from terrorists. The game will help you on observation skills, tracking and identifying targets, snap shooting, and movers. It will never replace real range time, but it is a nice variation and it is fun."
"observation skills, tracking and identifying targets, snap shooting, and movers." This is what is being taught. Like a flight simulator it will not replace real "stick" time, or real "range" time, but it helps.
See how he uses that one particular game, which uses an actual gun (albeit one that doesn't fire bullets) with a scope as its weapon as proof that first-person shooters are "murder simulators"? Remember the original question? See how he not only glossed over it, but used the arcade game, which nobody has in their house and which has an actual gun, to prove to the reader that first-person shooters, which use mice and keyboards on home computers, can teach kids to become expert marksmen?
It's one thing to speak from the heart and to the emotions. It's quite another to be so blatantly deceptive about it. I hope others caught that too.
- A.P. --
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ICQ does not have 'lag' as you put it, because messages are sent via peer to peer TCP connections. Same as DCC chat on irc.
...which is all well and good if you can actually connect to the ICQ server. Before I gave up in disgust a year or so ago, I found that a daunting task in and of itself.
As far as spoofing messages.. do you even _use_ irc? its called/nick . ever have nick wars on irc? channel wars? people stealing channels via server splits
How often do *you* use IRC? As far as I know, EFnet is the only network that *doesn't* let you register channels. I haven't seen a channel takeover in about 4 years now. Every network but EFnet and Undernet also let you register nicknames. That gets "message spoofing" out of the way, and even the dimmest of people would recognize that a person might not be who they say they are and use "/whois" to make sure.
AFAIK no IRC server in existance can support more than about 1500 clients
Most servers on major networks *routinely* handle over 1000 clients, and there are dozens that handle thousands.
*** Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.concentric.net *** There are 4842 users and 47781 invisible on 37 servers *** 163 : operator(s) online *** 21825 : channels formed *** I have 10340 clients and 1 servers *** Highest connection count: 12849 (12848 clients)
Yes, that's twelve thousand clients.
I want to talk to people, I don't want 14 year old script kiddies portscanning my IP, ping flooding me, etc.
You'd rather they spoofed UINs, changed your ICQ passwords, hacked peoples' Personal Webservers, etc.
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Slashdot Mirror
Metamucil can fix that...
The word you're looking for, btw, is "pooh-pooh".
-A.P. (Yes, I know this is off-topic, but I'm hoping the moderators have a bit of a sense of humor...)
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This is what had to be done with SSH. Why not make this the de-facto standard way of handling crap like this?
My point being: it's not illegal, apparently, to *download* the software in the U.S.
- A.P.
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People will only wake up, I'm afraid, when it's far too late to do anything. It may be past that point now. Big business has such a foothold in government (even on the international level -- look at Chevron) and is so, so good at manipulation of the public, the media, and public officials now that the situation seems almost hopeless. How can people be made to know of what's really happening when they're conditioned to accept as canon what they read in the newspaper and see on the local and national news programs? Will they really believe the ramblings of some kooks on the internet, no matter how many of us there are? Hell, even I take everything on the Web with a grain of salt, and I consider myself an open-minded person. What the vast majority of people that will only ever put their faith the old-fashioned media?
The revolution will not be televised, because it isn't going to occur.
- A.P.
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I don't even like apples.
Pears are cool, though.
- A.P.
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Think how many UNIX boxes are rootable despite the best efforts of CERT and BugTraq, and these people are supposed to know better! You can thank incompetent and lazy sysadmins the next time your network is the victim of a distributed UDP/ICMP DoS attack. The tools to cause this kind of chaos are becoming more and more widespread (Trin00 and TFN on the UNIX side, and now this Mac-targeted tool), and if you thought Smurf attacks were bad, imagine something that's impossible to stop and just as untraceable rendering your network useless.
It's a pretty fucked-up situation. And it's not gonna get any better any time soon, I'm afraid.
- A.P.
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It's also 8 bits wide instead of 64. Any wonder why the clock speed's 8 times as fast as PC100?
What a scam.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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srand()
split("Pent It Max Ath Cort Trit", PRE)
split("ium alon ex anium oricon agon on eres obos ymede itan erion", SUF)
split("II III IV Pro MMX Deluxe", T)
b=rand()*100; c=rand()*100; d=rand()*100
CONVFMT = "%2i"
a=b ""
x=c ""
y=d ""
printf "%s%s %s\n", PRE[a%6 + 1], SUF[x%12 + 1], T[y%6 + 1]
}
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Ohwell.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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I don't personally like what I've seen of it, either.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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Me too.
- A.P.
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- A.P.
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- A.P.
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They said.
In 1997.
- A.P.
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At any rate, the "Max" refresh rate is probably just the manufacturer's recommended maximum rate. The warranty might well be void if you drive it at anything more than that.
- A.P.
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I got it from here.
-A.P.
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- A.P.
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I really recommend SCSI for backups, mostly because everything supports it and it's pretty much foolproof. It really isn't all that expensive either.
- A.P.
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If companies could find a way to target ads at fetuses, they'd do it. "This Ultrasound scan brought to you by Gerber."
- A.P.
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JCal: You have called games like Doom and Quake "murder simulators" implying that they can actually teach a person to operate a real firearm and shoot it accurately. Yet in most of these games, the firearms are of a fantasy-futuristic variety with no relationship to real weapons. Also, the games are played in a sitting position and players click on buttons on a mouse and keyboard. Why do you believe playing these games trains children to know how to aim and fire a real, loaded firearm?
Now look at his response:
Col. Grossman: John, if you play at flying a plane we call that a flight simulator. If you play at shooting people it is a murder simulator. Like a plane, a gun is a mechanical device that you learn to use. I primarily apply this term (murder simulator) to games where you actually point a gun and learn trigger reflexes and other skills. But just as a flight simulator where the "player click on buttons on a mouse and keyboard" is still a flight simulator and still useful in helping you learn to fly, so too with Doom and Quake.
Now, that's fair enough. I don't take too much issue with what he says here. But now look at what he does:
Now a law enforcement sniper training magazine ("Sniper". . .) wrote the following in their recent Issue 28:
"A new video game "Silent Scope" is the latest rage at the local arcades. This video game puts you, the sniper, behind a scoped rifle, interacting in an unfolding scenario in which your talents are needed to help rescue the President's daughter from terrorists. The game will help you on observation skills, tracking and identifying targets, snap shooting, and movers. It will never replace real range time, but it is a nice variation and it is fun."
"observation skills, tracking and identifying targets, snap shooting, and movers." This is what is being taught. Like a flight simulator it will not replace real "stick" time, or real "range" time, but it helps.
See how he uses that one particular game, which uses an actual gun (albeit one that doesn't fire bullets) with a scope as its weapon as proof that first-person shooters are "murder simulators"? Remember the original question? See how he not only glossed over it, but used the arcade game, which nobody has in their house and which has an actual gun, to prove to the reader that first-person shooters, which use mice and keyboards on home computers, can teach kids to become expert marksmen?
It's one thing to speak from the heart and to the emotions. It's quite another to be so blatantly deceptive about it. I hope others caught that too.
- A.P.
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As far as spoofing messages.. do you even _use_ irc? its called /nick . ever have nick wars on irc? channel wars? people stealing channels via server splits
How often do *you* use IRC? As far as I know, EFnet is the only network that *doesn't* let you register channels. I haven't seen a channel takeover in about 4 years now. Every network but EFnet and Undernet also let you register nicknames. That gets "message spoofing" out of the way, and even the dimmest of people would recognize that a person might not be who they say they are and use "/whois" to make sure.
AFAIK no IRC server in existance can support more than about 1500 clients
Most servers on major networks *routinely* handle over 1000 clients, and there are dozens that handle thousands.
*** Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.concentric.net
*** There are 4842 users and 47781 invisible on 37 servers
*** 163 : operator(s) online
*** 21825 : channels formed
*** I have 10340 clients and 1 servers
*** Highest connection count: 12849 (12848 clients)
Yes, that's twelve thousand clients.
I want to talk to people, I don't want 14 year old script kiddies portscanning my IP, ping flooding me, etc.
You'd rather they spoofed UINs, changed your ICQ passwords, hacked peoples' Personal Webservers, etc.
-A.P.
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