Would it be possible to launch a reverse DOS attack on the RIAA by storing hundreds of thousands of fake mp3 files with song names on a 200 gig hard drive, or better yet a network of computers with 200 gig hard drives?
Check the site again bud. If you notice, nearly half of the stories are not about sports. Given the massly disproportionate news coverage sports has over all other topics, I think we're doing a pretty good job, especially considering we haven't had many user submissions yet.
The site is intended to be for all college topics, even frats, as much as I hate them. Sports will be prevalent, of course, and you can remove sports stories with a simple preferences change.
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Thankfully I grew up with two brothers, but what if you're playing your wireless gamecube and all the sudden your sister starts talking on the 2.4Ghz phone? Man that would suck. Talk about video games causing violence...
I've never answered a riddle question correctly in an interview. I just act like such a blatant smart ass that the interviewer gets frustrated and or impressed with my attention to detail. In this way I have probably lost job opportunities, but you know what, I don't give a fuck. I didn't go to college and major in engineering, a major lacking any female contact, so that I could graduate and be asked to solve riddles. If an interviewer is going to waste my time by asking me stupid questions rather than asking about past real problems I've had to solve, projects, and accomplishments at other jobs, then they'd better be prepared for a barrage of equally stupid questions/remarks.
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ahhh, I see, so basically, if interest A claims the patent, and has deep pockets, and interest B claims public knowledge, they must also have deep pockets to fund the necessary lawyers to prove that the patent hasn't been enforced and is unenforceable....
yet another example of how bad it is to let the home team make the rules as you play the game...
I think this is another case that points to the need for (yuck) more legislation. There needs to be a new law, one that takes the concept of public knowledge and applies it to existing patents. IE, this case, where JPEG has become public knowledge, to the extent it has an ISO standard, yet just now someone comes up saying they have the rights to it because of patent X. As I understand it, you can't gain a patent on something if it's already public knowledge. They need to extend that to say if you have a patent and you make it public knowledge, you can't then claim the rights to the resulting use.
Basically, this is like someone patenting a water powered car, then letting everyone build there own because they don't have the money to have a manufacturing facility, and then 5 years later when everyone and their brother is driving a water powered car, you come out and say "ok, now you all owe me 10%". It's ridiculous, and criminal.
Well I'm pretty sure that all the data is stored on the same drive and both heads can read from that drive. The difference here is that one head can read only, and that is connected to the outside world, while one head is read/write, and that is connected to the server. No matter what security you put in, if you have user data that can somehow come in and be written, you still have potential for hacking, and so having two heads really doesn't get you anywhere.
Why don't you moderators do a sort by date before you go marking stories as redundant? I asked a genuine question about the workability of dynamic sites using this sort of hard drive, and I looked to see if it had already been asked, and it HADN'T. So take your moderation and shove it directly up your ass.
How would user generated data be processed and placed on the hard drive through the r/w cable? This hard drive seems like a great idea for static or non-interactive websites, but if you're going to have user generated data, then it's going to be hard to not let anyone get access to the hard drive.
If you're going to single a place out and make it into a technology hub, why not go somewhere like James Island, SC? The cost of living is low, and you're right on the ocean, and very close to the beaches and bars of Charleston, SC... WTF
The other day I received new checks in the mail. Well I wrote a few checks, paid a few bills, and as I was flipping to the next check I was surprised to see an ad from a pen retail company! The company was not the same as the check printers (I checked) but apparently has struck an ad deal that places check sized slips with their pens and company info in my checkbook. Aren't there some places where ads just don't belong?
True, but what ever happened to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; the fundamentals upon which the constitution was written? Sure, the first amendment says anyone has the right to say whatever they want, but I don't see how that overriedes the basic priciples of the constitution's purpose, letting a big company legally twist and turn the law to fit their interests...
Wait a minute, I just described our economy over the last 50+ years... oh well
Microsoft's pre-emptive strikes against Apple come as Apple CEO Steve Jobs prepares to announce a new flat-panel iMac with a larger 17-inch liquid-crystal display and Mac OS X 10.2's readiness ahead of schedule.
OK, nothing new there. Microsoft shouldn't have a problem stealing the thunder at all, I mean those announcements aren't much of anything. Now, Steve Jobs has been known to pull some surprises from time to time, maybe MS is worrying about that...
I admire what he's doing, but reading his answers I'm having second thoughts about my optimism for his success. He simply doesn't answer the first question, and in another say's he's "no genius." Rocket Scientists have that expression about them for a reason, it takes a lot of know how and intelligence to do something like this safely and successfully, just look at how bad the rockets were on junkyard wars...
Get some sort of mesh "net" made out of whatever metal is deemed strong enough and have these nets surround whatever it is you don't want to get damaged. I know it sounds really low tech and bulky, but hell it's cheap and would probably work.
I don't know what sort of configuration you have, but I'm sure that somewhere out there you can find a tape drive for your machine. Tape drives are cumbersome and hard to move data with, but if you want a long term dependable backup system, tape is a good one that I know if.
I wonder if they'd actually do that? I wouldn't put it past them. They have more money than... well everyone. Have you ever been interviewed by them? They ask stupid riddle questions and could care less about your work experience. I turned down a job with them because they 1) are the devil and 2) wanted me to be a programmer, and that I am not. I have no doubts that they at least have some coops who are told to submit to Slashdot. Looks like this one is getting overtime pay for it.
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Would it be possible to launch a reverse DOS attack on the RIAA by storing hundreds of thousands of fake mp3 files with song names on a 200 gig hard drive, or better yet a network of computers with 200 gig hard drives?
settle down, I have nothing against them, I was just responding to the questioner, who does apparently have something against frats.
Check the site again bud. If you notice, nearly half of the stories are not about sports. Given the massly disproportionate news coverage sports has over all other topics, I think we're doing a pretty good job, especially considering we haven't had many user submissions yet.
The site is intended to be for all college topics, even frats, as much as I hate them. Sports will be prevalent, of course, and you can remove sports stories with a simple preferences change.
just a hunch
gee, did you think of that all by yourself?
or... 100 days... oops
If that were true, maybe EDUSlash.com's membership would double every day
Thankfully I grew up with two brothers, but what if you're playing your wireless gamecube and all the sudden your sister starts talking on the 2.4Ghz phone? Man that would suck. Talk about video games causing violence...
I've never answered a riddle question correctly in an interview. I just act like such a blatant smart ass that the interviewer gets frustrated and or impressed with my attention to detail. In this way I have probably lost job opportunities, but you know what, I don't give a fuck. I didn't go to college and major in engineering, a major lacking any female contact, so that I could graduate and be asked to solve riddles. If an interviewer is going to waste my time by asking me stupid questions rather than asking about past real problems I've had to solve, projects, and accomplishments at other jobs, then they'd better be prepared for a barrage of equally stupid questions/remarks.
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ahhh, I see, so basically, if interest A claims the patent, and has deep pockets, and interest B claims public knowledge, they must also have deep pockets to fund the necessary lawyers to prove that the patent hasn't been enforced and is unenforceable....
yet another example of how bad it is to let the home team make the rules as you play the game...
I think this is another case that points to the need for (yuck) more legislation. There needs to be a new law, one that takes the concept of public knowledge and applies it to existing patents. IE, this case, where JPEG has become public knowledge, to the extent it has an ISO standard, yet just now someone comes up saying they have the rights to it because of patent X. As I understand it, you can't gain a patent on something if it's already public knowledge. They need to extend that to say if you have a patent and you make it public knowledge, you can't then claim the rights to the resulting use.
Basically, this is like someone patenting a water powered car, then letting everyone build there own because they don't have the money to have a manufacturing facility, and then 5 years later when everyone and their brother is driving a water powered car, you come out and say "ok, now you all owe me 10%". It's ridiculous, and criminal.
Well I'm pretty sure that all the data is stored on the same drive and both heads can read from that drive. The difference here is that one head can read only, and that is connected to the outside world, while one head is read/write, and that is connected to the server. No matter what security you put in, if you have user data that can somehow come in and be written, you still have potential for hacking, and so having two heads really doesn't get you anywhere.
Why don't you moderators do a sort by date before you go marking stories as redundant? I asked a genuine question about the workability of dynamic sites using this sort of hard drive, and I looked to see if it had already been asked, and it HADN'T. So take your moderation and shove it directly up your ass.
How would user generated data be processed and placed on the hard drive through the r/w cable? This hard drive seems like a great idea for static or non-interactive websites, but if you're going to have user generated data, then it's going to be hard to not let anyone get access to the hard drive.
If you're going to single a place out and make it into a technology hub, why not go somewhere like James Island, SC? The cost of living is low, and you're right on the ocean, and very close to the beaches and bars of Charleston, SC... WTF
The other day I received new checks in the mail. Well I wrote a few checks, paid a few bills, and as I was flipping to the next check I was surprised to see an ad from a pen retail company! The company was not the same as the check printers (I checked) but apparently has struck an ad deal that places check sized slips with their pens and company info in my checkbook. Aren't there some places where ads just don't belong?
True, but what ever happened to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; the fundamentals upon which the constitution was written? Sure, the first amendment says anyone has the right to say whatever they want, but I don't see how that overriedes the basic priciples of the constitution's purpose, letting a big company legally twist and turn the law to fit their interests...
Wait a minute, I just described our economy over the last 50+ years... oh well
Microsoft's pre-emptive strikes against Apple come as Apple CEO Steve Jobs prepares to announce a new flat-panel iMac with a larger 17-inch liquid-crystal display and Mac OS X 10.2's readiness ahead of schedule.
OK, nothing new there. Microsoft shouldn't have a problem stealing the thunder at all, I mean those announcements aren't much of anything. Now, Steve Jobs has been known to pull some surprises from time to time, maybe MS is worrying about that...
Model Rockets? We're talking about launching a person, not a model rocket. When's the last time you... ugh.. nevermind, it's not even worth arguing.
I admire what he's doing, but reading his answers I'm having second thoughts about my optimism for his success. He simply doesn't answer the first question, and in another say's he's "no genius." Rocket Scientists have that expression about them for a reason, it takes a lot of know how and intelligence to do something like this safely and successfully, just look at how bad the rockets were on junkyard wars...
Get some sort of mesh "net" made out of whatever metal is deemed strong enough and have these nets surround whatever it is you don't want to get damaged. I know it sounds really low tech and bulky, but hell it's cheap and would probably work.
I don't know what sort of configuration you have, but I'm sure that somewhere out there you can find a tape drive for your machine. Tape drives are cumbersome and hard to move data with, but if you want a long term dependable backup system, tape is a good one that I know if.
I wonder if they'd actually do that? I wouldn't put it past them. They have more money than... well everyone. Have you ever been interviewed by them? They ask stupid riddle questions and could care less about your work experience. I turned down a job with them because they 1) are the devil and 2) wanted me to be a programmer, and that I am not. I have no doubts that they at least have some coops who are told to submit to Slashdot. Looks like this one is getting overtime pay for it.