If try to run this on BSD Unix, will my computer become possessed by Daemons? Seriously, I thought there was a commandment like thought shalt not kill/commit murder. You know the one after the rule against spanking monkeys (red hot pokers are okay).
Christian theme games are okay I guess, but this sounds like a bad doom patch rahter than something original.
I wrote that if you were to take each seperate means of dating and put all the evidence together, then you could conclude that the world is around 4.5 billion years old. I did not state that carbon 14 was used to date rocks. It is only good for more geoligically recent events and items.
The "what if" ploy usually does end up reading like a poorly hashed out plot with one dimensional characters. If, however, this is of the calibre of the Difference Engine by Gibson then I know that I will enjoy it. The whole point of sci-fi is to be entertaining and imaginative. A willing suspension of disbelief is necessary for a good sci-fi novel to work. This "what if" scenario proposed in the sounds interesting enough just from the review for me to go out and buy it.
Yeah. It's a room full of hypothetical chimps whose existence is deterministic. If you open the door, the Schroedinger Cat problem applies (half die). Quantum Monkeys-- the GUI of the future!
Just for shits and giggles... try singing all these words to the tune of "It's the end of the world (as we know it)" by REM. I couldn't stop laughing in my cubical.
Are you really supposed to sit there and tell us that the world is only 6-10,000 years old? If that is the case then you miss the point of the article and the whole video. We know from corraboratory evidence how long it takes for certain events to happen like: tree rings, carbon dating, the movement of the continents, the shift of the earth's axis, the change of the northern celestial pole, etc. All together it means that the earth is 4.5 billion years old. Getting back to the mammoth, the glacial permafrost was dated to 23,000 years ago. That is around the time of the last ice age when humans were coming out of Siberia and into North America through a land bridge in Alaska. Evolutions does not say how old a creature is or was, just how long ago a creature came into existnce and how long its specie lasted.
I will never understand why some people insist on clinging to children's fairy stories into adulthood. Must be comforting to think that man is the center of all things-- the truth would be terrifying.
What is the big deal of going into a froth at the mouth over whether the Queen actually does make the decision over the operating system and hardware for her website? This is simply harmless and good publicity for Open Source software. If we keep up all the raving as to Her involvement or whether the UK should be a republic, we would end up with people calling Richard Stallman a communist (he is not!). Some people love to flame bait. Oh! and here is my tuppence worth... God save our gracious Queen, Long live our noble Queen, God save the Queen! Send her victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us; God save the Queen!
If Hackers the movie was supposed to be serious, why does Penn Jillet of Penn & Teller appear as a computer tecnician? Why does one of the supposed "virii" appear as a cookie monster? Why does "secret" appear to be the password to turn off another virus? I personally like the movie despite some of the really stupid blunders (AI RISC chips?). It showed some accurate portrayals of hackers and phreakers but combined them with the night club scene. Any way, the movie was just trying to be entertaining and make computers sexy. Relax. If they ever make a Hollywood flic about Kevin Mitnic, I am sure thay would get some hunk to portray him and over galmourize his abilities.
Remember when the ploice thought that CONDOR could wolf whistle perfect tones into a phone and start WWIII? The average person has no idea what really goes on in a computer or how networks interact. Tehy just want sex, violence and some willing suspense of disbelief.
Too many users never come up with cryptic passwords in the first place. My personal favourites have been: secret, cookie, , , and the most fabulous of all- secret. And yes folks, all of these are at least six letters.
At least change the name of the local admin account and come up with a number letter sequence with alternating capital letters. And for goodness sakes, disable the guest account! There is nothing worse than a windows user with root access. Makes my job even worse. I swear if WINE ever gets finished, I will go totally Linux and SAMBA.
In my day, we didn't have particle accelerators. We had to tickle the dragon's tail with lumps of radioactive uranium isotpes. AND WE LIKED IT! These confounded kids today with their theory of evolution, beowulf clusters, open-source operating systems. MAMBY PAMBY! HUH! In my day, Mr. Watson told us there was a world market for four or five computers and we liked it.
Well, I don't think that the world is gonna end thanks to that darn Scooby Doo and those darn meddlin' kids.
It has been the great hypocrisy of American Journalism for the last 100 years to think that it operates objectively. If this were true, we would not have had Pulitzer, Hurst, Winchell, et al. giving us the news as they see it. All Cringely did was remind us of our own shortcomings. So what if he thinks that the Jane's incident was flawed. At least that journal had the temerity to do some research.
Your right. Gramatically it probably should be "they go the house", but I am only a native French speaker and not Latin. All my Latin is from Catholic Church and studying the origin of words. But direct translation never works (Try babelfish sometime), you have to account for context. So "they go the house" or "they go the outs" (leave the house) can mean the same thing.
Thank you. It is always good to learn something new, even something as unimportant as this. It's funny what your mind will let you think that you heard. I'm English and I should have heard "'ouse".
The threat of cyber-terrorism is a growing concern for many western governments. I do agree with Johan J. Ingles-le Nobel that it can become a very new method of attack and attention gathering for terrorist groups. Fortunately most groups of terrorists have resorted to conventional methods of operation (physical violence, intimidation). The very nature of using computers to create havoc upon the military or social infrastructure of western nations has and will in the future require large amouts of capital and technical expertise. The only groups with that sort of financial and technological resources are governments and corporations. Terrorist hardly ever have the skills, expertise, or resources to cause massive amounts of damage. They rely on fear and the the intimidation created by press coverage and government crack down. Historically, very few terrorist organizations have ever overthrown a government or colonial authority. In every case it has taken the backing of another world power or the withdrawl of colonial authority due to morale collapse to facilitate a victory. The American revolution, Sandinista revolution, the Banana Republics of South and Central America were all due to outside financial or political intersts. In Africa and Asia, most former colonies that had insurrection were only "victorious" due to the withdrawl of occupying forces and the collapse of morale. After World War II, it was the loss of status as world powers and the collapse of Europe that allowed the so called success of terrorist and revolutionary movements in colonies. However in the close of the 20th century, most governments can rest assured that no terrorist group will be able to overthrow the governemt. The only aim of these groups is to create fear so that goverment reprisals will make these regimes unpopular. The underlying fanaticism of these groups is not very strong either. The smarter terrorist organizations uses the poor, religeous, or politically fanatical as martyrs. All decision making is accomplished by secular not religeous people. Look back at recent history to the Middle East and South East Asia. All of the martyrs or dead from those issurrections were among the poor and uneducated. The losses by organizations like the Viet Cong and Hama/Hizbullah were spectacular. Yet these groups kept going. This requires outside political and ecomomic support. The Viet Cong collapsed in the mid 1960's. North Vietnam had to take over and prevent its losing to South Vietnam. By the time of the Tet offensive, all officer and non commisioned officer roles in the Viet cong had been replaced by army regulars.
The cyberwarfare and cyber-terrorism of the coming years will not be any different. The computers and other communications hardware have gotten faster, better, and inexpensive, but are still out of reach to most terrorists. It would take tremendous financial backing by a state or corporate entity to euip this kind of ware. It would be cheaper and more cost effective in personnel to recruit the lower classes as martyrs in conventional terror campaigns than to invest in trying to crack the Pentagon.
It would be prudent for intelligence and police authorities to take safegaurds against this kind of attack. However, the loss of civil liberties or privacy through laws meant to combat this threat would only serve the terrorists intersts of a frightened asd disgruntled public. Another threat is from the governments themselves. It has already been revealed that the CIA/Defense Department used to inflate the military capabilities of the Soviet Union to justify their own budgets. The CIA's budget is still classified. It has also been revealed that the NSA listens to private telephone conversations on the average citizen--Echelon.
I think that great care must be taken to see that goverment does not overstep its bounds and forgert that it is governemt of the people, for the people, and by the people. I do not want me government making me feel like a criminal.
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The chip will rock if they can get production lines going. They will need all the help they can get though. Maybe they should talk to IBM and Motorola whose Power PC already has specs for 128 Bits and clock cycles of 1 & 2 gigahertz. The company has had a long history of playing catch-up with Intel. They can pull ahead in terms of speed and cost if they just produce enough chips. Personally, I always liked the company and its products. I still have a 486 DX4-100 from them. It zooms along just fine.
They are obviously trying to get at Microsoft to become the premier software/hardware provider to the x86 market. If they want to release the source code under a non GPL license then fine. Embrace and extend will not work too well for them since there are three BSD incarnations and various platforms for Linux. Both of these enviromnents offer the dependability and reliability that Solaris has without a for-profit-only motive. I wonder if Sun has really thrown in the towel to the open-source movement or is just trying to circumvent some R&D expenses. Before anyone gets too riled up and makes refences to Gates of Borg, try playing the theme music for the Empire from Star Wars. It's more appropriate. As for Soloris, I don't care. I never use it anyway. I will stick to Linux and WINNT (gasp!-have to at work).
George C. Scott refused the Acadamy Award twice: once when he was nominated around 1960(?) and the other time when he actually won for his role in Patton. He would rather watch a hockey game than be a part of an ego inflating "popularity contest." My kind of actor! He knew he was good, but did not need to play to the Hollywood media blitz. I will miss him.
I think that we all need to stop, think, and then act constructively before we let our fingers fly across our keyboards in lamentation. All this wailing and gnashing of teeth does little to enhance our image before corporate America. All Bruce Perens did was take it upon himself to call Corel and talk to someone ther who was very receptive to criticism of their GPL violation. Corel does have an 800 number and a long distance number if you know where to look. Besides some with Mr. Perens'm clout probably knows who to call in order to bypass redtape and bureaucrats.
Do you think that Nortel or SaskTel would build me a link to them? Could you imagine downloading Debian on that with this Network in Tuscon? It would take only an hour or so. Damnit! The "future" never arrives soon enough. I still cannot get ADSL on my street yet.
Ya! You forgot to mention all the actors and comics who make Hollywood worthwhile. Remember the "Canadian Conspiracy"? Lorne Greene and Lorne Michaels? We also make the world's most secure operation system and the best verion of BSD-UNIX. Makes me kinda proud, eh?
This problem of economic and technological isoloation and frustrauion will hit everyone regardless of race. If it happens at all, it will be on the poor. This is not a racial issue but an economic one. Why does every problem in society have to always have a racial angle. Is any one group worse off than the rest? Sounds like a martyr syndrome to me
Personally, I think that people who advocate the enforcement of our constitutional rights are not nuts. The ACLU, NAACP, and the NRA (yes them)are all groups that protect certain rights. There are others too numerous to mention, but even these three have been attracted controversy in their activities. This article was good at demonstrating probable violations by law enforcment(Ruby Ridge, Drug Wars, etc.) that would happen. The law enforcement agencies of this country have a few bad members who are the reason we have a constitutional protection against unreasonable search and siezure. A right to privacy is a price that the government will have to put up with in this country. The whole reason this country was founded can be found in the first 10 amendments.
The example of the police targeting anti abortion protesters or of this so called anit-religeous sentiment in this country smacks of conservatism and bad rhetoric. I have lived hear for 18 years and the only problem I have ever encountered is the gradual erosion of my rights and freedoms at the expansion of big government in the area of law enforcement. Why are drug users and child pornagraphers always mentions as the "main targets"? It is to scare us into giving up our rights to their control. Megalomania seems to be rampant in our government.
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If try to run this on BSD Unix, will my computer become possessed by Daemons? Seriously, I thought there was a commandment like thought shalt not kill/commit murder. You know the one after the rule against spanking monkeys (red hot pokers are okay).
Christian theme games are okay I guess, but this sounds like a bad doom patch rahter than something original.
I wrote that if you were to take each seperate means of dating and put all the evidence together, then you could conclude that the world is around 4.5 billion years old. I did not state that carbon 14 was used to date rocks. It is only good for more geoligically recent events and items.
The "what if" ploy usually does end up reading like a poorly hashed out plot with one dimensional characters. If, however, this is of the calibre of the Difference Engine by Gibson then I know that I will enjoy it. The whole point of sci-fi is to be entertaining and imaginative. A willing suspension of disbelief is necessary for a good sci-fi novel to work. This "what if" scenario proposed in the sounds interesting enough just from the review for me to go out and buy it.
Yeah. It's a room full of hypothetical chimps whose existence is deterministic. If you open the door, the Schroedinger Cat problem applies (half die). Quantum Monkeys-- the GUI of the future!
Just for shits and giggles... try singing all these words to the tune of "It's the end of the world (as we know it)" by REM. I couldn't stop laughing in my cubical.
I wonder if even enemies have paranoids?
Are you really supposed to sit there and tell us that the world is only 6-10,000 years old? If that is the case then you miss the point of the article and the whole video. We know from corraboratory evidence how long it takes for certain events to happen like: tree rings, carbon dating, the movement of the continents, the shift of the earth's axis, the change of the northern celestial pole, etc. All together it means that the earth is 4.5 billion years old.
Getting back to the mammoth, the glacial permafrost was dated to 23,000 years ago. That is around the time of the last ice age when humans were coming out of Siberia and into North America through a land bridge in Alaska. Evolutions does not say how old a creature is or was, just how long ago a creature came into existnce and how long its specie lasted.
I will never understand why some people insist on clinging to children's fairy stories into adulthood. Must be comforting to think that man is the center of all things-- the truth would be terrifying.
What is the big deal of going into a froth at the mouth over whether the Queen actually does make the decision over the operating system and hardware for her website? This is simply harmless and good publicity for Open Source software.
If we keep up all the raving as to Her involvement or whether the UK should be a republic, we would end up with people calling Richard Stallman a communist (he is not!). Some people love to flame bait.
Oh! and here is my tuppence worth...
God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us;
God save the Queen!
Hip hip and Tally Ho!
If Hackers the movie was supposed to be serious, why does Penn Jillet of Penn & Teller appear as a computer tecnician? Why does one of the supposed "virii" appear as a cookie monster? Why does "secret" appear to be the password to turn off another virus?
I personally like the movie despite some of the really stupid blunders (AI RISC chips?). It showed some accurate portrayals of hackers and phreakers but combined them with the night club scene. Any way, the movie was just trying to be entertaining and make computers sexy. Relax. If they ever make a Hollywood flic about Kevin Mitnic, I am sure thay would get some hunk to portray him and over galmourize his abilities.
Remember when the ploice thought that CONDOR could wolf whistle perfect tones into a phone and start WWIII?
The average person has no idea what really goes on in a computer or how networks interact. Tehy just want sex, violence and some willing suspense of disbelief.
I thought that I typed "password", but I am going blind. Must get a better razor for my palms
Too many users never come up with cryptic passwords in the first place. My personal favourites have been: secret, cookie, , , and the most fabulous of all- secret. And yes folks, all of these are at least six letters.
At least change the name of the local admin account and come up with a number letter sequence with alternating capital letters. And for goodness sakes, disable the guest account!
There is nothing worse than a windows user with root access. Makes my job even worse. I swear if WINE ever gets finished, I will go totally Linux and SAMBA.
In my day, we didn't have particle accelerators. We had to tickle the dragon's tail with lumps of radioactive uranium isotpes. AND WE LIKED IT!
These confounded kids today with their theory of evolution, beowulf clusters, open-source operating systems. MAMBY PAMBY! HUH! In my day, Mr. Watson told us there was a world market for four or five computers and we liked it.
Well, I don't think that the world is gonna end thanks to that darn Scooby Doo and those darn meddlin' kids.
It has been the great hypocrisy of American Journalism for the last 100 years to think that it operates objectively. If this were true, we would not have had Pulitzer, Hurst, Winchell, et al. giving us the news as they see it. All Cringely did was remind us of our own shortcomings. So what if he thinks that the Jane's incident was flawed. At least that journal had the temerity to do some research.
Your right. Gramatically it probably should be "they go the house", but I am only a native French speaker and not Latin. All my Latin is from Catholic Church and studying the origin of words. But direct translation never works (Try babelfish sometime), you have to account for context. So "they go the house" or "they go the outs" (leave the house) can mean the same thing.
Thank you. It is always good to learn something new, even something as unimportant as this. It's funny what your mind will let you think that you heard. I'm English and I should have heard "'ouse".
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It's been thirty years. I'd raise a pint if I drank, but heres to the boys anyway. So here is my tribute:
Romane ite Domum.
(Write this 100 times or I will cut your balls off.)
Unless of coarse you mean 640K? That ought to be enough for anybody... ;-)
The threat of cyber-terrorism is a growing concern for many western governments. I do agree with Johan J. Ingles-le Nobel that it can become a very new method of attack and attention gathering for terrorist groups. Fortunately most groups of terrorists have resorted to conventional methods of operation (physical violence, intimidation). The very nature of using computers to create havoc upon the military or social infrastructure of western nations has and will in the future require large amouts of capital and technical expertise. The only groups with that sort of financial and technological resources are governments and corporations. Terrorist hardly ever have the skills, expertise, or resources to cause massive amounts of damage. They rely on fear and the the intimidation created by press coverage and government crack down.
Historically, very few terrorist organizations have ever overthrown a government or colonial authority. In every case it has taken the backing of another world power or the withdrawl of colonial authority due to morale collapse to facilitate a victory. The American revolution, Sandinista revolution, the Banana Republics of South and Central America were all due to outside financial or political intersts. In Africa and Asia, most former colonies that had insurrection were only "victorious" due to the withdrawl of occupying forces and the collapse of morale. After World War II, it was the loss of status as world powers and the collapse of Europe that allowed the so called success of terrorist and revolutionary movements in colonies.
However in the close of the 20th century, most governments can rest assured that no terrorist group will be able to overthrow the governemt. The only aim of these groups is to create fear so that goverment reprisals will make these regimes unpopular. The underlying fanaticism of these groups is not very strong either. The smarter terrorist organizations uses the poor, religeous, or politically fanatical as martyrs. All decision making is accomplished by secular not religeous people. Look back at recent history to the Middle East and South East Asia. All of the martyrs or dead from those issurrections were among the poor and uneducated. The losses by organizations like the Viet Cong and Hama/Hizbullah were spectacular. Yet these groups kept going. This requires outside political and ecomomic support. The Viet Cong collapsed in the mid 1960's. North Vietnam had to take over and prevent its losing to South Vietnam. By the time of the Tet offensive, all officer and non commisioned officer roles in the Viet cong had been replaced by army regulars.
The cyberwarfare and cyber-terrorism of the coming years will not be any different. The computers and other communications hardware have gotten faster, better, and inexpensive, but are still out of reach to most terrorists. It would take tremendous financial backing by a state or corporate entity to euip this kind of ware. It would be cheaper and more cost effective in personnel to recruit the lower classes as martyrs in conventional terror campaigns than to invest in trying to crack the Pentagon.
It would be prudent for intelligence and police authorities to take safegaurds against this kind of attack. However, the loss of civil liberties or privacy through laws meant to combat this threat would only serve the terrorists intersts of a frightened asd disgruntled public. Another threat is from the governments themselves. It has already been revealed that the CIA/Defense Department used to inflate the military capabilities of the Soviet Union to justify their own budgets. The CIA's budget is still classified. It has also been revealed that the NSA listens to private telephone conversations on the average citizen--Echelon.
I think that great care must be taken to see that goverment does not overstep its bounds and forgert that it is governemt of the people, for the people, and by the people. I do not want me government making me feel like a criminal.
The chip will rock if they can get production lines going. They will need all the help they can get though. Maybe they should talk to IBM and Motorola whose Power PC already has specs for 128 Bits and clock cycles of 1 & 2 gigahertz. The company has had a long history of playing catch-up with Intel. They can pull ahead in terms of speed and cost if they just produce enough chips. Personally, I always liked the company and its products. I still have a 486 DX4-100 from them. It zooms along just fine.
They are obviously trying to get at Microsoft to become the premier software/hardware provider to the x86 market. If they want to release the source code under a non GPL license then fine. Embrace and extend will not work too well for them since there are three BSD incarnations and various platforms for Linux. Both of these enviromnents offer the dependability and reliability that Solaris has without a for-profit-only motive. I wonder if Sun has really thrown in the towel to the open-source movement or is just trying to circumvent some R&D expenses.
Before anyone gets too riled up and makes refences to Gates of Borg, try playing the theme music for the Empire from Star Wars. It's more appropriate.
As for Soloris, I don't care. I never use it anyway. I will stick to Linux and WINNT (gasp!-have to at work).
Sorry to rain on your parade, but Hotmail uses Free BSD.
George C. Scott refused the Acadamy Award twice: once when he was nominated around 1960(?) and the other time when he actually won for his role in Patton. He would rather watch a hockey game than be a part of an ego inflating "popularity contest."
My kind of actor! He knew he was good, but did not need to play to the Hollywood media blitz. I will miss him.
I think that we all need to stop, think, and then act constructively before we let our fingers fly across our keyboards in lamentation. All this wailing and gnashing of teeth does little to enhance our image before corporate America. All Bruce Perens did was take it upon himself to call Corel and talk to someone ther who was very receptive to criticism of their GPL violation.
Corel does have an 800 number and a long distance number if you know where to look. Besides some with Mr. Perens'm clout probably knows who to call in order to bypass redtape and bureaucrats.
Do you think that Nortel or SaskTel would build me a link to them? Could you imagine downloading Debian on that with this Network in Tuscon? It would take only an hour or so. Damnit! The "future" never arrives soon enough. I still cannot get ADSL on my street yet.
Ya! You forgot to mention all the actors and comics who make Hollywood worthwhile. Remember the "Canadian Conspiracy"? Lorne Greene and Lorne Michaels? We also make the world's most secure operation system and the best verion of BSD-UNIX.
Makes me kinda proud, eh?
This problem of economic and technological isoloation and frustrauion will hit everyone regardless of race. If it happens at all, it will be on the poor. This is not a racial issue but an economic one. Why does every problem in society have to always have a racial angle. Is any one group worse off than the rest? Sounds like a martyr syndrome to me
Personally, I think that people who advocate the enforcement of our constitutional rights are not nuts. The ACLU, NAACP, and the NRA (yes them)are all groups that protect certain rights. There are others too numerous to mention, but even these three have been attracted controversy in their activities. This article was good at demonstrating probable violations by law enforcment(Ruby Ridge, Drug Wars, etc.) that would happen. The law enforcement agencies of this country have a few bad members who are the reason we have a constitutional protection against unreasonable search and siezure.
A right to privacy is a price that the government will have to put up with in this country. The whole reason this country was founded can be found in the first 10 amendments.
The example of the police targeting anti abortion protesters or of this so called anit-religeous sentiment in this country smacks of conservatism and bad rhetoric. I have lived hear for 18 years and the only problem I have ever encountered is the gradual erosion of my rights and freedoms at the expansion of big government in the area of law enforcement. Why are drug users and child pornagraphers always mentions as the "main targets"? It is to scare us into giving up our rights to their control. Megalomania seems to be rampant in our government.