There is also an article in Rolling Stong from July 5th, 2001 titled "The Acid King" about Leonard Pickard. The missle silo was owned by Todd Skinner, a shady bussinessman(drug dealer) who laundered money, trafficed drugs, and who knows what else. He made deals with the DEA to save his own ass many times, getting many of if friends imprisoned for life. Another example of America's idiotic war on drugs.
Have you actually payed attention to past Supreme Court appointments? In Texas, Bush has appointed several pro-choice judges. Look at who was appointed by Bush senior. Its very hard to appoint people to the Supreme Court who will do what you want. Mindless appointees always tend to be vetoed and for good reason.
If you agree with much of this article and you're not planning to vote for Ralph Nader come November you ought to have your head examined.
Most people I know who actually look beneath a canidates multi-million dollar ad campaigns realize that bush is a moron and gore is just a democratic lapdog with good intentions. Don't get me wrong, I think gore could be a good leader, but since when is our political system about voting for the least-worst canidate?
Ralph Nader is America's number one consumer advocate... he has been fighting large corperations for 40 years. Criticize Katz if you will, but this issue will become more and more important as corperations realize they can control even more of the average person's life with the Internet. If you are afraid of who will control your life ten years from now, support Nader.
I'm becoming digusted with slashdot's journalistic ability. For all practical purposes, the link contains no information what so ever about a "Serial Graphics Bus" except that there might possibly be another one (and couldn't you assume as much?), and yet it's important enough for the title of the post?
We can't even know what they mean a "Serial Graphics Bus", but I would bet its not a replacement for Firewire or USB. Please save the mindless speculation for the comment area
If slashdot wants to be a rumor site, how about you post some real rumors?
I would really like to see mindcraft publish some benchmarks on the *BSD operating systems, more specifically FreeBSD. After all, its used on such networks as hotmail, yahoo, and cdrom.com
This does nothing that hasn't been done before. Distributed.net already has huge amounts of effort put into brute forcing 56-bit encryption and has already checked 15% of the keyspace. I fail to see any benefit comming from this.
Our spare cpu cycles are already spread thin enough between seti@home and RC5, why spread them even thinner?
My summer job was with a school system that had just purchased 24 Kryotech systems runing amd k6-3's at 500mhz. (i even got a kryotech t-shirt out of it)
here's my thoughts about kryotech: They are great to brag about, but they are rarely clocked significantly faster than whats already on the market, or soon to be on the market. Tom himself said that he could run the Athlon K7 at 750mhz with no additional cooling. I don't see the huge advantage to dishing out 1,000$ or more for a barebones systems that will be matched by the CPU makers within months.
On another note: Kryotech told my employers that they would have 1ghz machines out by the end of the year. I'm actually suprised they're not out already considering that tom had no problems clocking Athlons to 750mhz. And yet they supercool the 800mhz chip to -30C (i'm not sure about the Athlons but our machines were running -45C to -47C)
-dox
Never underestimate the power of a small tactical nuclear weapon.
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But they are perfect for large warehouses. US Department of Energy headquarters in Washington has had one of these since 1994.
http://www.fusionlighting.com/sulfur.htm
These lights are really cool. They are even more efficient than high pressure sodium lamps but give a spectrum very similiar to sunlight.
-Zach
You can cut down a tree, burn it, make electricity.
But seriously... look at the physics behind it. Its the same argument with small cars vs SUVs.
tiny wheels, high center of gravity, i don't think so.
digital rights management will never work
And you could lick the wrong hand rail and trip your ears off!
There is also an article in Rolling Stong from July 5th, 2001 titled "The Acid King" about Leonard Pickard. The missle silo was owned by Todd Skinner, a shady bussinessman(drug dealer) who laundered money, trafficed drugs, and who knows what else. He made deals with the DEA to save his own ass many times, getting many of if friends imprisoned for life. Another example of America's idiotic war on drugs.
Have you actually payed attention to past Supreme Court appointments? In Texas, Bush has appointed several pro-choice judges. Look at who was appointed by Bush senior. Its very hard to appoint people to the Supreme Court who will do what you want. Mindless appointees always tend to be vetoed and for good reason.
Most people I know who actually look beneath a canidates multi-million dollar ad campaigns realize that bush is a moron and gore is just a democratic lapdog with good intentions. Don't get me wrong, I think gore could be a good leader, but since when is our political system about voting for the least-worst canidate?
Ralph Nader is America's number one consumer advocate... he has been fighting large corperations for 40 years. Criticize Katz if you will, but this issue will become more and more important as corperations realize they can control even more of the average person's life with the Internet. If you are afraid of who will control your life ten years from now, support Nader.
I'm becoming digusted with slashdot's journalistic ability. For all practical purposes, the link contains no information what so ever about a "Serial Graphics Bus" except that there might possibly be another one (and couldn't you assume as much?), and yet it's important enough for the title of the post?
We can't even know what they mean a "Serial Graphics Bus", but I would bet its not a replacement for Firewire or USB. Please save the mindless speculation for the comment area
If slashdot wants to be a rumor site, how about you post some real rumors?
I would really like to see mindcraft publish some benchmarks on the *BSD operating systems, more specifically FreeBSD. After all, its used on such networks as hotmail, yahoo, and cdrom.com
dox
sorry for the redundancy... his post wasn't up when i started writing... his is far better anyways:) Moderate me at will.
dox
This is rather old. As the article says at the bottom:
Posted 7/27/98
In fact there was a nearly identical story on slashdot story here about the same researcher... just a differnt publication.
dox
my bad, i meant rc5-64
and i had also forgotten that distributed.net took on the other challenge
This does nothing that hasn't been done before. Distributed.net already has huge amounts of effort put into brute forcing 56-bit encryption and has already checked 15% of the keyspace. I fail to see any benefit comming from this.
Our spare cpu cycles are already spread thin enough between seti@home and RC5, why spread them even thinner?
dox
mind exploring that thought a little more?
They sound exactly like pop machines! And they are very heavy... if i weren't young i would have probally thrown my back out:)
My summer job was with a school system that had just purchased 24 Kryotech systems runing amd k6-3's at 500mhz. (i even got a kryotech t-shirt out of it)
here's my thoughts about kryotech:
They are great to brag about, but they are rarely clocked significantly faster than whats already on the market, or soon to be on the market. Tom himself said that he could run the Athlon K7 at 750mhz with no additional cooling. I don't see the huge advantage to dishing out 1,000$ or more for a barebones systems that will be matched by the CPU makers within months.
On another note: Kryotech told my employers that they would have 1ghz machines out by the end of the year. I'm actually suprised they're not out already considering that tom had no problems clocking Athlons to 750mhz. And yet they supercool the 800mhz chip to -30C (i'm not sure about the Athlons but our machines were running -45C to -47C)
-dox
Never underestimate the power of a small tactical nuclear weapon.