It's just a prototype. An out of date one at that. The whole plan for the OICW has been changed.
The two main components have been split off. The rifle part became the XM-8 and might come into use soon. The smart-grenade launcer part is now the XM-25. With a 25mm shell instead of the 20mm of the old design.
Why would they bother making their own release? If they were really trying to slip in a backdoor this would be a dumb way of doing it. It would be much smarter to have a few people work in the OSS comunity undercover, gaining trust for providing good code and then slipping the backdoor that way. People are much more suspicious of the NSA than a respected contributer.
I find it much more likely that this is legit and the NSA is trying to increase security for corporations in the US and friendly nations. The security methods in their code can help prevent cracker and virus attacks on corporate computers. Those attacks hurt the economy. The economy being hurt hurts the US.
Err. No.
Microsoft doesn't controll the content. At least some of their writers (Brock Meeks for one) even have a clause in their contract freeing the reporter from the contract if they encounter any evidence of a Microsoft bias.
I remember when MSNBC first came on the air, they had a computer show called the Site. It was the only computer oriented TV show I ever liked. It was constantly critical of Microsoft products. Macs were generaly shown in a positive light. Although Cliff Stole got a bit obnoxious after a few episodes...
I think a good deal of the resistance has to do with US government officials being uneasy with the idea of more countries having both advanced rockets and nukes. India has made gains in both fields, and the more countries there are with both, the more nervous the big boys get.
Even in the US you can legaly own, drive and even fire the cannon on a tank. They're just expensive and I'm sure there are plenty of restrictions on where you can drive them or shoot the cannon.
I wouldn't be suprised if this was privately owned.
I'm well aware that Microsoft was the distributer and not the developer. Which is exactly the way I see Bungie going. It would be stupid to break up their teams and just stick them in with the rest of the coders at Microsoft. So I think it will still be the Bungie crew developing, it's just that they will be inside instead of outside like Atomic was.
I seriously doubt this will keep Bungie from developing Mac software. Microsoft makes many of their big products available for the Mac. There are still plenty of Mac users out there, it's just good buisness so sell to them too.
I also doubt the ownership of Bungie will decrease the quality of their products. Microsoft's games division often puts out some good stuff like the Age of Empires series and the Close Combat series (by the way, I have a copy of Close Combat 2 sitting on my shelf which is on a Mac/Windows hybrid CD).
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The spam can is unfortunatly appropriate for Usenet these days. The signal to noise ratio has just gotten horrid. There is some hope of beating back the spam though, like S.P.U.T.U.M. and other groups hitting the spammers where it hurts and Usenet Death Penalties being called against ISPs who give bandwidth to spammers.
But in the end it might become irrelivent, considering that most new internet users don't even know what Usenet is.
A coppied DVD is NOT broken. The encryption only effects playback. So you can copy it (if you had the equipment) and the encryption will not get in your way at all. The entire point of the encryption is to keep you from playing DVDs with different country codes.
I'm wondering how the wacko cults are handling this...the world hasn't ended. Armageddon hasn't happened.
Well quite a few will be trying to figure out what to do with a two year supply of canned beans. Perhaps a few will kill themselves to escape the embaressment of being so paniced about the biggest non-event of the milennium. But I figure most will just find some excuse about how the NWO canceled their evil(tm) plans because the nutbars were too ready for them, or some such nonsense.
On the up side, we should see slashed prices on generators. Giving us all a great way to keep our machines up durring power outages.
Electricity, phone lines and computers might be less available in developing countries, but they do exist. Free software is a great step in the right direction. By not having to pay for software, the total cost of computer use is brought down. Plus the efficiency of Linux and other OSS projects lets people do more with older cheaper hardware. By giving good software to developing countries at little or no cost can do quite a bit to help spread computer use and get these countries into the information age.
I don't quite understand why this post was moderated down to 0 for being a "troll." Maybe I'm just weird but I saw nothing about this post that is in any way a troll. It might be somewhat redundant but certainly not a troll.
While Rob and Hemos have done a lot of cool things, it's been the COMMUNITY that's made Slashdot what it is. Without those of us who spent hours here every day reading and posting comments, and submitting stories, this site would not exist.
Well the comunity has played a large part, but this site wouldn't exist without Rob and Hemos either.
$14 million is a pretty lucrative sum, and I would have sold out for that much money in a heartbeat as well. But this kind of stuff has to end. We need to show the corporations of the world that they can't exploit the community simply by buying out 2 members of the community. We need to start a Slashdot clone. This should be pretty easy to do.
As of now, I'm going to stop participating here. No corporation is going to buy me. It's very sad how they turned Rob into a pimp.
How exactly did they sell out? They get to keep total creative control of Slashdot. And they aren't charging for it. This actualy keeps them from needing to charge because now they can afford to run the thing. I don't really see what there is to complain about. Two guys make a good geek news site, people go there and make it even better, than they make a deal to get payed for doing what they have been all along. It's a win win situation.
Is it just me -- perhaps I'm being naive and proud -- or are most slashdot readers not the people who need to hear this argument?
Unfortunatly just one look at the Slashdot message boards shows that we do have our share of frothing idiots who need to hear this. Personaly I think most Slashdot readers are probably well reasoned and mature. Unfortunatly there are enough idiots to make the whole comunity look bad.
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It's just a prototype. An out of date one at that. The whole plan for the OICW has been changed.
The two main components have been split off. The rifle part became the XM-8 and might come into use soon. The smart-grenade launcer part is now the XM-25. With a 25mm shell instead of the 20mm of the old design.
Unobtainium is a term for non-existant wonder materials. In this case carbon-nano tubes are unobtainium. As in unobtainable.
Hemos said nothing. It was all in italics. The post was written entirely by the person who submitted the article.
Why would they bother making their own release? If they were really trying to slip in a backdoor this would be a dumb way of doing it. It would be much smarter to have a few people work in the OSS comunity undercover, gaining trust for providing good code and then slipping the backdoor that way. People are much more suspicious of the NSA than a respected contributer.
I find it much more likely that this is legit and the NSA is trying to increase security for corporations in the US and friendly nations. The security methods in their code can help prevent cracker and virus attacks on corporate computers. Those attacks hurt the economy. The economy being hurt hurts the US.
Err. No.
Microsoft doesn't controll the content. At least some of their writers (Brock Meeks for one) even have a clause in their contract freeing the reporter from the contract if they encounter any evidence of a Microsoft bias.
I remember when MSNBC first came on the air, they had a computer show called the Site. It was the only computer oriented TV show I ever liked. It was constantly critical of Microsoft products. Macs were generaly shown in a positive light. Although Cliff Stole got a bit obnoxious after a few episodes...
I think a good deal of the resistance has to do with US government officials being uneasy with the idea of more countries having both advanced rockets and nukes. India has made gains in both fields, and the more countries there are with both, the more nervous the big boys get.
It's not about the satallites, it the rockets.
They called him Mahdi (or something simmilar). I think that is what they were calling him in the Miniseries too, it just sounds alot like Muad'Dib.
Even in the US you can legaly own, drive and even fire the cannon on a tank. They're just expensive and I'm sure there are plenty of restrictions on where you can drive them or shoot the cannon.
I wouldn't be suprised if this was privately owned.
I'm well aware that Microsoft was the distributer and not the developer. Which is exactly the way I see Bungie going. It would be stupid to break up their teams and just stick them in with the rest of the coders at Microsoft. So I think it will still be the Bungie crew developing, it's just that they will be inside instead of outside like Atomic was.
I seriously doubt this will keep Bungie from developing Mac software. Microsoft makes many of their big products available for the Mac. There are still plenty of Mac users out there, it's just good buisness so sell to them too.
I also doubt the ownership of Bungie will decrease the quality of their products. Microsoft's games division often puts out some good stuff like the Age of Empires series and the Close Combat series (by the way, I have a copy of Close Combat 2 sitting on my shelf which is on a Mac/Windows hybrid CD).
And no, I am not a Microsoft supporter.
I thought the NRO handled the spy sats?
The spam can is unfortunatly appropriate for Usenet these days. The signal to noise ratio has just gotten horrid. There is some hope of beating back the spam though, like S.P.U.T.U.M. and other groups hitting the spammers where it hurts and Usenet Death Penalties being called against ISPs who give bandwidth to spammers.
But in the end it might become irrelivent, considering that most new internet users don't even know what Usenet is.
Well, when it comes from a fringe art group, it's not all that suprising.
A coppied DVD is NOT broken. The encryption only effects playback. So you can copy it (if you had the equipment) and the encryption will not get in your way at all. The entire point of the encryption is to keep you from playing DVDs with different country codes.
Go check out www.opendvd.org
I'm wondering how the wacko cults are handling this...the world hasn't ended. Armageddon hasn't happened.
Well quite a few will be trying to figure out what to do with a two year supply of canned beans. Perhaps a few will kill themselves to escape the embaressment of being so paniced about the biggest non-event of the milennium. But I figure most will just find some excuse about how the NWO canceled their evil(tm) plans because the nutbars were too ready for them, or some such nonsense.
On the up side, we should see slashed prices on generators. Giving us all a great way to keep our machines up durring power outages.
Electricity, phone lines and computers might be less available in developing countries, but they do exist. Free software is a great step in the right direction. By not having to pay for software, the total cost of computer use is brought down. Plus the efficiency of Linux and other OSS projects lets people do more with older cheaper hardware. By giving good software to developing countries at little or no cost can do quite a bit to help spread computer use and get these countries into the information age.
I don't quite understand why this post was moderated down to 0 for being a "troll." Maybe I'm just weird but I saw nothing about this post that is in any way a troll. It might be somewhat redundant but certainly not a troll.
While Rob and Hemos have done a lot of cool things, it's been the COMMUNITY that's made Slashdot what it is. Without those of us who spent hours here every day reading and posting comments, and submitting stories, this site would not exist.
Well the comunity has played a large part, but this site wouldn't exist without Rob and Hemos either.
$14 million is a pretty lucrative sum, and I would have sold out for that much money in a heartbeat as well. But this kind of stuff has to end. We need to show the corporations of the world that they can't exploit the community simply by buying out 2 members of the community. We need to start a Slashdot clone. This should be pretty easy to do.
As of now, I'm going to stop participating here. No corporation is going to buy me. It's very sad how they turned Rob into a pimp.
How exactly did they sell out? They get to keep total creative control of Slashdot. And they aren't charging for it. This actualy keeps them from needing to charge because now they can afford to run the thing. I don't really see what there is to complain about. Two guys make a good geek news site, people go there and make it even better, than they make a deal to get payed for doing what they have been all along. It's a win win situation.
Is it just me -- perhaps I'm being naive and proud -- or are most slashdot readers not the people who need to hear this argument?
Unfortunatly just one look at the Slashdot message boards shows that we do have our share of frothing idiots who need to hear this. Personaly I think most Slashdot readers are probably well reasoned and mature. Unfortunatly there are enough idiots to make the whole comunity look bad.
From what I understand anonymous posts start out with a score of 0, but can be raised. Non-anonymous posts start at 1.
Although I could be mistaken.