what about for those of us who are completely uneffected by caffeine? I drink any sort of consumable liquid like a fish... whether it's fruit juice, , bawls huge jugs of hyper-caffinated tea... I can easily go weeks on nothing but apple juice with absolutely no effect and then drink a few gallons of hyper caffinated tea or bawls and beel absolutely no different... I've even managed to stay awake for a week at a time for a full semester (working at night, school in the day, two hour commute between the two)... sure, i was tired as hell..but it had nothing to do with caffeine
no shit.. your average wifi person is totally friggin oblivious that they're so exposed... just for fun i used to drive around with my laptop to see how popular wifi is... TONS of people had it... funny thing is that out of maybe 200 networks found in about an hour, only around 5-10 had ANY security on 'em... including my own standard network which has the normal encryption, MAC address lockouts and i myself use all encrypted protocols on top of that... (except for web, public ftp and public cvs, etc) i even found a local computer store had their store network on an unsecured wifi lan... (compUSA) i find that especially troubling/amazing i wouldnt be surprised if more than half of 'em had the default manufacturer passwords set on their wifi switches/routers
i like cdrecord-prodvd... it actually works for me dvd+rw-tools locks my machine half the time... made about $30 worth of coasters so far not being free is a DEFINITE bummer though
anyways.. how about broadcasting digital signals instead? could have many more channels.. maybe have a certain subset of those signals for hobbyist tv stations or shows? people would need to get a digital signal receiver... but hey... people bought cable boxes before cable was available built into tv's.. same with digital cable and sattelite... i think a ton of hobbyist stations would be damn cool.. tons of variety to watch... maybe have certain people sign up to send feeds to be rebroadcast and so on..
My experiences with rpm based systems just about made me go postal -- just like the author almost did. searching out dependencies is THE MOST ANNOYING THING (besides spam) thats why i like gentoo... no deps to worry about.. just compile and run... now if the gentoo people added 3 things: 1. binary releases of large packages in portage (kde, gnome, etc) 2. autoconfigurator --- optional so those who want to use it.. can 3. easy installer that automates all the tedious little install steps
If it had those 3 things I'd DEFINITELY recommend gentoo for even newbs... otherwise i find myself refering people to mandrake and RH..... i've tried 'em all and personally like gentoo best since it takes all the headache out of installs
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not just that.. i BET that with this technology.. MAYBE... JUST MAYBE they'll find a way to prove the unified force theory... if they can shift an EM feild enough so that it behaves like gravity, or vica-versa (assuming the theory is true) that would truly be staggering... It could change everything...
How about the possible implications in fusion or anti-matter research? bumping up the frequency of light enough to have the frequency of the light alone manipulate the atoms...
or even wilder... zero point fields? those theories are out there too... -- being able to harness EM fields so high frequency... we cant' detect 'em.. though we could tap into 'em by scaling 'em down to such a degree where they're useful...
And here's a quote from 'dark lord seth' from 20 years ago: "Like we do not already have a shortage of IP adresses for one planet already. Screw IPv6, we need IPv8 now instead to deal with this! 1,3407807929942597099574024998206e+154 IP adresses ought to be enough for ever space ship, space station and coffee machine in the future!"
little did he know that by the year 2015, everything manufactured would be made of net-connected nano-machines; each with its own address and automatically replaces itself as it wears out resulting to our unbreakable devices we all know and love today.
the scary part is... i'm sure there's a porn czar out there that already has the cash ready to start up an orbital live sex cam... i mean hell.. didnt one of those boy bands go into space already?
I sure as hell hope they dont plan on using IPv4... on a side note... maybe a zero latency network using the spin of quarks as the bits;) now the hard part -- isolating and seperating matching quarks amd keeping them from phasing out of existance..
not to mention something to accurately detect the spin
ok maybe i'm full of sh*t.. but wouldnt that be trippy? sending data instantaneously regardless of distance...
who knows.. maybe another hundred years or two and we'll be able to instantaneously be able to phase matter in and out of 'existance' in any position in our 4d space-time at will by tapping into all 11 dimentions...
religion does seem like it'd have a cow. After all there are people out there who still belive the earth is flat and we're riding through the universe on the back of a turtle. Personally I couldnt care less about the religious people anymore.. I've lived in the bible belt for so long i'm immune to some of the residents' 'blind faith'. Blind faith has always bothered me to no end. Even when I was a naive kid of 5 or 6. I believed what my parents told me to believe; but i didnt like it. None of it made any sense to me. After a while, i honestly believed that all the religious stories were just that... something to tell to kids so that they wouldn't bug you about all the 'why' questions. It wasn't until I was working on my associate's degree in a biology class when i realized.... people actually believe all those fairy tales they've been force-fed during their childhood. These people actually honestly believe that they're right and the 80-90+% of the rest of the world is wrong. That revelation made me lose faith about 99.99%
This type of story is too common lately. Spammers get their emails discovered, the address is posted and they whine and bitch because they get spam. How about all of us get together and compare notes on which spams we get, find the responsible party and get busy on 'em. After all we are 'hackers' are we not? I'm sure that within the slashdot crowd lies the potential to really deal a blow against spammers. heh we should launch the friggin holy war of tech against spam. we have bayesian filters, RBL lists, white lists.. all sorts of tools that only attack the tip of the problem. We all need to get together and destroy the many bases of spam. The US government has its war against terror. We nerds should launch our war against spammers. We are just as capable to fight this war as the US is to fight theirs.
I've actually had several businesses since I was 18. I never could get much business. While I may be great at the technical side of things and be able get a job done about 2-10 times faster than all my peers; I can't sell myself worth sh*t. I think that's a common problem among technical minded people. (at least from my experience) The people I see succeeding in their own businesses are the 'tards' that think they know it all and come running to me for every little question they have. Want to be my salesman? because I SUCK at selling;)
life as we know it is possible anywhere there is water. At this point, simple life forms like algea and bacteria on an extra-terrestrial world wouldn't excite me more than a "that's damn cool" type reaction. I'm to the point now that I'd expect there to be simple life on some of the other worlds in our solar system. I'd be a lot more surprised of all the planets and moons around us were completely dead. Now if they found concrete proof of extinct complex organisms on mars, or a sea full of life on Europa, It'd be a very exciting day. Jupiter's natural radiation could heat Europa's innards enough for life to thrive. Some say that the amount of radiation from jupiter would kill everything off; but life has a tendency to find a way to overcome obstacles. After all, despite all our efforts, spammers exist, trolls keep posting and the Saddams of the world keep on having their way.
ack!:P 16 seems like a lot longer when you're unemployed... heh could have sworn it's been 2 years these things happen when you havnt slept in about 2 days;)
I've been unemployed since January of 2002. Thats about 28 months so far but anyways.. I've noticed that things look like cr*p lately and it'll be a while before they improve. So i've decided that i'm going back to school to get my master's. I've wanted to do it anyways... Hopefully that'll put me in a higher standing than I am now..
On a side note; I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the times or not, but a friend of mine told me that even if someone has a ton of experience, and then they graduate college with a bachelor's or masters or whatever... Some employers tend to ignore all work experience prior to graduating. does anyone know if this is true? if it is, i think it's the most retarded HR practice i've EVER heard of. Can someone PLEASE enlighten me on the subject.
Tesla IMHO is the most important inventor in the history of modern man. Everything we consider modern is based off his work. Among other things, he's responsible for Remote power transfer (didnt he remotely power the world's fair in the early 20th century?), Microwaves, AC current, AC motors, Radio (yes, radio, Tesla got there before Marconni; though he didnt patent it), AC power inverters, AC transformers (the nifty things that pump 120V up to 20000 for TV's and stuff)
Can anyone PLEASE explain to me why Tesla is less known than Edison and Einstein??
another thing i used to do back in the DOS days is use the ascii character 255 in filenames... it's legal in a filename... but it looks exactly like a space on the console; most people are none the wiser when they saw a file with no name. They didnt know how to delete it if they did notice it... It was funny as hell torturing people with a single file that filled up their entire HD with something they couldnt erase... every system has its insecurities.. no matter how secure you try to make a machine.. someone will find a way to get into it... most of what i read in the book is garbage.. how about this one: redirect C: to A: then someone does format A: and it clears their HD or throw in format C:/u/autotest into autoexec.bat any system is exploitable.. noone is absolutely safe unless the machines are turned off:P
hmmm on all my systems, the left window key switches to the previous tty and the right one switches to the next one... i dont use 'em often -- but.. that seems to be a preset in quite a few distros (most that i've used...) on the X side, i'm sure that all of you can figure out cool little functions to have X do when one of the 'extra' keys are pressed.. except for things like changing functions of meta-keys, almost all window managers have an EXTREMELY powerful and easy way of making any key do just about anything you want...
I'm just a little disappointed that X cant support as many keys as my keyboard has... (around 140) I've found functions for all the ones X lets me map -- everything from volume control, changing desktops, copy, paste, change font sizes in browsers, open up a dvd player, mplayer, browser, terminal:D personally, I cant stand not having a bunch of 'extra' keys to customize.. just takes a TINY bit of effort:) i've always preferred keyboard as my main input device.. mouse is good for navigating on the web and doing simple drawings in the gimp... I always find it a lot easier to preset a few commonly used apps or functions onto a single key than to hunt through a menu or three extra keys == good IMHO i cant understand why people always want less keys on the keyboard.. but i guess that's because i'm not a 'writer' or a professional 'graphic artist' or whatever who only needs the basic numbers letters spaces and punctuations imho, I think that keyboards are probably one of the few devices that are as close to perfect as they get... whether you use qwerty or dvorak, it still serves its purpose quite well... Unless we develop a totally different system of writing, i think that keyboards will remain essentially unchanged for a long time (with exceptions to adding new keys, changing 'ergonomics' and adding foam rubber to everything)... LONG LIVE KEYBOARDS!
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what about for those of us who are completely uneffected by caffeine? I drink any sort of consumable liquid like a fish... whether it's fruit juice, , bawls huge jugs of hyper-caffinated tea... I can easily go weeks on nothing but apple juice with absolutely no effect and then drink a few gallons of hyper caffinated tea or bawls and beel absolutely no different... I've even managed to stay awake for a week at a time for a full semester (working at night, school in the day, two hour commute between the two) ... sure, i was tired as hell. .but it had nothing to do with caffeine
anyone else as fscked up as me?
no shit.. your average wifi person is totally friggin oblivious that they're so exposed... just for fun i used to drive around with my laptop to see how popular wifi is... TONS of people had it... funny thing is that out of maybe 200 networks found in about an hour, only around 5-10 had ANY security on 'em ... including my own standard network which has the normal encryption, MAC address lockouts and i myself use all encrypted protocols on top of that... (except for web, public ftp and public cvs, etc)
i even found a local computer store had their store network on an unsecured wifi lan... (compUSA)
i find that especially troubling/amazing
i wouldnt be surprised if more than half of 'em had the default manufacturer passwords set on their wifi switches/routers
i like cdrecord-prodvd ... it actually works for me
dvd+rw-tools locks my machine half the time...
made about $30 worth of coasters so far
not being free is a DEFINITE bummer though
man.. if i had mod points.. i'd mod you up!
... but hey... people bought cable boxes before cable was available built into tv's.. same with digital cable and sattelite...
anyways.. how about broadcasting digital signals instead?
could have many more channels.. maybe have a certain subset of those signals for hobbyist tv stations or shows?
people would need to get a digital signal receiver
i think a ton of hobbyist stations would be damn cool..
tons of variety to watch... maybe have certain people sign up to send feeds to be rebroadcast and so on..
ACK! replying to my own post.. but i think i was unclear enough to require it...
step 3 refers to the INITIAL install
once the initial install is done.. it's insanely easy (emerge kde ---and after it compiles -- it's in -with no user intervention)
My experiences with rpm based systems just about made me go postal -- just like the author almost did. searching out dependencies is THE MOST ANNOYING THING (besides spam)
.. i've tried 'em all and personally like gentoo best since it takes all the headache out of installs
thats why i like gentoo... no deps to worry about.. just compile and run... now if the gentoo people added 3 things:
1. binary releases of large packages in portage (kde, gnome, etc)
2. autoconfigurator --- optional so those who want to use it.. can
3. easy installer that automates all the tedious little install steps
If it had those 3 things I'd DEFINITELY recommend gentoo for even newbs... otherwise i find myself refering people to mandrake and RH...
not just that.. i BET that with this technology.. MAYBE ... JUST MAYBE they'll find a way to prove the unified force theory... if they can shift an EM feild enough so that it behaves like gravity, or vica-versa (assuming the theory is true)
that would truly be staggering... It could change everything...
How about the possible implications in fusion or anti-matter research? bumping up the frequency of light enough to have the frequency of the light alone manipulate the atoms...
or even wilder... zero point fields? those theories are out there too... -- being able to harness EM fields so high frequency... we cant' detect 'em.. though we could tap into 'em by scaling 'em down to such a degree where they're useful...
truly exciting..
May 5, 2023:
And here's a quote from 'dark lord seth' from 20 years ago:
"Like we do not already have a shortage of IP adresses for one planet already. Screw IPv6, we need IPv8 now instead to deal with this! 1,3407807929942597099574024998206e+154 IP adresses ought to be enough for ever space ship, space station and coffee machine in the future!"
little did he know that by the year 2015, everything manufactured would be made of net-connected nano-machines; each with its own address and automatically replaces itself as it wears out resulting to our unbreakable devices we all know and love today.
the scary part is... i'm sure there's a porn czar out there that already has the cash ready to start up an orbital live sex cam... .. didnt one of those boy bands go into space already?
i mean hell
I sure as hell hope they dont plan on using IPv4 ... ;)
.. but wouldnt that be trippy?
on a side note...
maybe a zero latency network using the spin of quarks as the bits
now the hard part -- isolating and seperating matching quarks amd keeping them from phasing out of existance..
not to mention something to accurately detect the spin
ok
maybe i'm full of sh*t
sending data instantaneously regardless of distance...
who knows.. maybe another hundred years or two and we'll be able to instantaneously be able to phase matter in and out of 'existance' in any position in our 4d space-time at will by tapping into all 11 dimentions...
that would be the most awesome thing EVER... :D
how 'bout this: run a cron job; every so often have that thing go to the fridge and bring back a bawls
how's the payload on that thing?
religion does seem like it'd have a cow. After all there are people out there who still belive the earth is flat and we're riding through the universe on the back of a turtle.
Personally I couldnt care less about the religious people anymore.. I've lived in the bible belt for so long i'm immune to some of the residents' 'blind faith'. Blind faith has always bothered me to no end. Even when I was a naive kid of 5 or 6. I believed what my parents told me to believe; but i didnt like it. None of it made any sense to me. After a while, i honestly believed that all the religious stories were just that... something to tell to kids so that they wouldn't bug you about all the 'why' questions. It wasn't until I was working on my associate's degree in a biology class when i realized.... people actually believe all those fairy tales they've been force-fed during their childhood. These people actually honestly believe that they're right and the 80-90+% of the rest of the world is wrong. That revelation made me lose faith about 99.99%
that'd be 'all your base' ;)
"all your spam are belong to marklar"
This type of story is too common lately. Spammers get their emails discovered, the address is posted and they whine and bitch because they get spam. How about all of us get together and compare notes on which spams we get, find the responsible party and get busy on 'em. After all we are 'hackers' are we not? I'm sure that within the slashdot crowd lies the potential to really deal a blow against spammers. heh
we should launch the friggin holy war of tech against spam.
we have bayesian filters, RBL lists, white lists.. all sorts of tools that only attack the tip of the problem. We all need to get together and destroy the many bases of spam. The US government has its war against terror. We nerds should launch our war against spammers. We are just as capable to fight this war as the US is to fight theirs.
I've actually had several businesses since I was 18. I never could get much business. While I may be great at the technical side of things and be able get a job done about 2-10 times faster than all my peers; I can't sell myself worth sh*t. I think that's a common problem among technical minded people. (at least from my experience) The people I see succeeding in their own businesses are the 'tards' that think they know it all and come running to me for every little question they have. ;)
Want to be my salesman? because I SUCK at selling
Jupiter hasn't erupted into a brown dwarf yet; so it's ok. :D
life as we know it is possible anywhere there is water. At this point, simple life forms like algea and bacteria on an extra-terrestrial world wouldn't excite me more than a "that's damn cool" type reaction. I'm to the point now that I'd expect there to be simple life on some of the other worlds in our solar system. I'd be a lot more surprised of all the planets and moons around us were completely dead. Now if they found concrete proof of extinct complex organisms on mars, or a sea full of life on Europa, It'd be a very exciting day. Jupiter's natural radiation could heat Europa's innards enough for life to thrive. Some say that the amount of radiation from jupiter would kill everything off; but life has a tendency to find a way to overcome obstacles. After all, despite all our efforts, spammers exist, trolls keep posting and the Saddams of the world keep on having their way.
what's so special about 2.5%?
hm. i know.. cut taxes and have people spend more money!
ack! :P ;)
16
seems like a lot longer when you're unemployed...
heh
could have sworn it's been 2 years
these things happen when you havnt slept in about 2 days
I've been unemployed since January of 2002. Thats about 28 months so far
but anyways.. I've noticed that things look like cr*p lately and it'll be a while before they improve. So i've decided that i'm going back to school to get my master's. I've wanted to do it anyways... Hopefully that'll put me in a higher standing than I am now..
On a side note; I'm not sure if this has anything to do with the times or not, but a friend of mine told me that even if someone has a ton of experience, and then they graduate college with a bachelor's or masters or whatever... Some employers tend to ignore all work experience prior to graduating. does anyone know if this is true? if it is, i think it's the most retarded HR practice i've EVER heard of. Can someone PLEASE enlighten me on the subject.
Tesla IMHO is the most important inventor in the history of modern man. Everything we consider modern is based off his work. Among other things, he's responsible for Remote power transfer (didnt he remotely power the world's fair in the early 20th century?), Microwaves, AC current, AC motors, Radio (yes, radio, Tesla got there before Marconni; though he didnt patent it), AC power inverters, AC transformers (the nifty things that pump 120V up to 20000 for TV's and stuff)
Can anyone PLEASE explain to me why Tesla is less known than Edison and Einstein??
another thing i used to do back in the DOS days is use the ascii character 255 in filenames... it's legal in a filename... but it looks exactly like a space on the console; most people are none the wiser when they saw a file with no name. They didnt know how to delete it if they did notice it... It was funny as hell torturing people with a single file that filled up their entire HD with something they couldnt erase... every system has its insecurities.. no matter how secure you try to make a machine.. someone will find a way to get into it... most of what i read in the book is garbage.. how about this one: redirect C: to A: then someone does format A: and it clears their HD /u /autotest into autoexec.bat :P
or throw in format C:
any system is exploitable.. noone is absolutely safe unless the machines are turned off
jezus fsckin christ
not that fscking goatse.cx shit again...
heh
THIS IS A WARNING! DO NOT LOOK AT THE PARENT LINK!!
what're the aliens on the far side of the moon gonna think? how about the germans that live on that 1940's base?
@_@
hmmm
:D :)
on all my systems, the left window key switches to the previous tty and the right one switches to the next one...
i dont use 'em often -- but.. that seems to be a preset in quite a few distros (most that i've used...)
on the X side, i'm sure that all of you can figure out cool little functions to have X do when one of the 'extra' keys are pressed.. except for things like changing functions of meta-keys, almost all window managers have an EXTREMELY powerful and easy way of making any key do just about anything you want...
I'm just a little disappointed that X cant support as many keys as my keyboard has... (around 140)
I've found functions for all the ones X lets me map -- everything from volume control, changing desktops, copy, paste, change font sizes in browsers, open up a dvd player, mplayer, browser, terminal
personally, I cant stand not having a bunch of 'extra' keys to customize..
just takes a TINY bit of effort
i've always preferred keyboard as my main input device.. mouse is good for navigating on the web and doing simple drawings in the gimp... I always find it a lot easier to preset a few commonly used apps or functions onto a single key than to hunt through a menu or three
extra keys == good IMHO
i cant understand why people always want less keys on the keyboard.. but i guess that's because i'm not a 'writer' or a professional 'graphic artist' or whatever who only needs the basic numbers letters spaces and punctuations
imho, I think that keyboards are probably one of the few devices that are as close to perfect as they get... whether you use qwerty or dvorak, it still serves its purpose quite well... Unless we develop a totally different system of writing, i think that keyboards will remain essentially unchanged for a long time (with exceptions to adding new keys, changing 'ergonomics' and adding foam rubber to everything)...
LONG LIVE KEYBOARDS!